Episode #31 - "Bob's Ejaculating Beer" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "The Voluptuous Horror of Lena Dunham"

Bonus Alternate Title: "Lordy Lordi Lorde Has Done It Again"

• Special Co-Host: Bob Koski
• Tonight's Beverage: Zywiec (pronouced "zjee-vee-ess") beer
• Mopping up the rest of the Hillary Swank item from last week; people wanting Justin Bieber deported; Oscar nominations and the disqualification of a Best Song nominee and how there's so much corruption in the process, why make a stand on this?
• Dirk talks about American Hustle. (DirkFlix review pending)
• Discussion of the Grammy Awards, the state of music, whether Daft Punk sucks (yes) and the merits of Lorde who looks like this...
  
  ...but people say she's ugly (da fuh?) and does a Replacements cover tune like this:
  
  The original version:
  
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• The publishing company behind Lorde's discovery and success.
• Inside Deadmau5's helmet.
• LeAnn Rimes was 13 when she hit with "Blue."
• Stars who could use a hit.
• The forever in waiting discussion of Lena Dunham and Girls and whether she's a transgressive force or just a self-indulgent fat chick with a TV show: The reaction before S3 started about questioning her body image; the kerfuffle over Jezebel showing the unretouched photos; the pros and cons of nepotism; is this an assault on traditional beauty standards; comparison to Melissa McCarthy.
•  Her Golden Globes outfit:
  
• The story behind Pharrell's Grammy hat, which Malcolm McClaren wore first 30 years ago:
  
• The Green Day American Idiot musical is at the Detroit Opera House and some discussion of the Satori Circus 25th Anniversary show last week.
• The titular beer:
  
  
• Ben Affleck's inability to watch Republican actors; how Hollywood doesn't know any Republicans, so they don't depict them; and how it's bad for business.
• The ridiculous excuse for Atlanta's inability to cope with 2 inches of snow.
• Variety's disappointing review of The Monuments Men.
• Wrapping up with news of Bob Dylan doing a Fiat-Chrysler commercial.
• Paramount kills off film prints.
• The movie theater texting shooting.
• Chief O’Brien has the worst job.
• Gratuitous Katy Perry photo:
  
  And another:
  
  You're welcome. :)

Episode #30 - "Bad ChapStick" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Touching Justin Bieber"

• Special Co-Host: Bob Koski returns to help make the sausage.
• Tonight's Beverage: Water (because Bob forgot to bring the beer)
• Show mop-up as Dirk finishes the story of how the first song he ever wrote got played on the radio and his first and only groupie experience. He also changes his favorite Van Halen album and how he'd terrorize Pizza Hut customers with a song from it.
• The difference between being attractive and photogenic and how it applies to the guitarist from The Pursuit of Happiness.
• Quick Golden Globes recap and how the hosts didn't.
• An extensive tease about a planned discussion of Lena Dunham. (Spoiler alert: We ran out of time.)
• Quick thoughts on new TV shows Bitten, Intelligence and True Detective.
• The shocking divorce of the Captain & Tennille and Bob's distant connection to their music.
• 1970s variety shows.
• Justin Bieber's (not) shocking Lindsay Lohan life impression and who isn't watching out for this young megastars.
• Dirk's Mean Girls review which explored how LiLo blew up her career.
• NY Times' piece: Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan In Your Movie
• The book explaining Herbie Fully Loaded's fatal development:
  
• Fragmentation in late night television shows.
• Music by Watershed - "Suckerpunch" and "Mercurochrome (unfortunately not available for embedding) - but this is the album they came from:
  
• Mention of Satori Circus' 25th Anniversary Performance at the DFT. (By the time you see this, it was over.)
• Discussion of the new Beatles box set and the attendant controversy and tons of Beatles trivia.
  
  
• FACT CHECK: Bob was right about the first Beatles tune recorded on 4-track. He still forgot the beer.
• The infamous "Butcher Baby" cover:
  
• Why Dirk and Hermione didn't go to a Watershed show in Columbus, OH.
• The serious problem of gaps in streaming music services' catalogs.
• A Bears video from the last time he saw them:
  
  Yeah, he was a day off on what month he saw them and the song title - "Superboy" was from a show the next day in Chicago. Wah.
• Books that should be in the public domain and how it force the Beatles bootlegs release.
• The Oscar nominations, whether expanding the Best Picture field past five titles has backfired, and the idiot who thinks it's sexist to have separate actor and actress categories.
• J.Law photobombs Taylor Swift and has the third season of Homeland spoiled. Unlike her bedsheet dress at the Golden Globes, this outfit she wore to the SAG Awards was cool:
  
• The story of the Star Trek Orion Slave Girl vs. color-correction.
• We FINALLY ask what's the deal with Hillary Swank? Also: Hot or not?
  
• Check out the Erotic Poetry & Music Festival.
  

Episode #29 - "Shame-Shaming" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "I Call It Experimental Freedom"

• Special Co-Host: Otto the Autopilot
• Tonight's Beverage: Smirnoff Ice Green Apple
• Talking about the Snowpocalypse: Polar Vortex thing.
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• Discussion of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and the bizarre cult of J.Law haters.
• Brutalist architecture.
• Why celebrity culture sucks.
• Tila Tequila is now doing porn. Find your own link.
• The need to stop calling people just being mean "[whatever]-shaming," especially considering no one cares when men are insulted.
• Alyssa Milano at the event where Jay Mohr called her fat:
  
  (She had her kid 2-1/2 years ago and is 41 now.)
• Gal Gadot smacks down comments about her bust size for Wonder Woman.
• Leahi Rimini and Fran Dresher - best when seen, not heard?
  
• Dirk and Otto play the Deep Thoughts Musicians Quiz game!
• Courtney Love when less junked-up in 1998:
  
  
• Mid-quiz digression about favorite musicals.
• How boy bands saveed music and kids these days suck.
• Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll
• New Gmail app on Android adds security with images.
• Steam Machines previewed and a sampling of a future rant Dirk rant about Gabe Newell.
• Dumb crypto-currencies Dogecoin and Coinye. Plus: Dirk vs. Kanye fans!
• Movie reviews at DirkFlix: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; Runner Runner; Sellebrity; Prisoners; Broken City; Room 237.