What's the song in the "30 Minutes or Less" trailer?

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Why: At the end, it sounds like "Kids" by MGMT, but way slower.



(I don't have speakers at work, but I think this is the one.)

Answer: Oh, it totally is MGMT! Except it's in a song called "Opposite of Adults" by some bright young opportunity-seizers called Chiddy Bang. Wut.

And there's another song, too: "Get Rhythm" by Johnny Cash (Philip Steir Remix). Zzzzzz



Source: YouTube



The More You Know: The original (nightmare version):

Who sings the song in that Payless commercial?

Search: i am a paleontologist payless

Why: I know a Future Paleontologist of America who might just need that to be her official theme song.

Answer: They Might Be Giants!!! YEEESSSS!!! (and it says "w/ Danny Weinkauf," who is always in the band anyway... so I don't know).

This is one of the only bands anyone at my camp ever listened to in 1995-7. (The other one was REM.)

Oh my god, do you guys remember Dial-a-Song?

Lyrics go like:

I love diggin' in the dirt
With just a pick and brush
Finding fossils is my aim
So I'm never in a rush
'Cause the treasures that I seek
Are rare and ancient things
Like Velociraptor's jaw
Or Archaeopteryx's wings

Now all the kids
Who wanna see 'em
Are lining up
At our museum

I am a paleontologist
That's who I am

Could it be an herbivore
Crushing plants with rounded teeth
Or ferocious carnivore
Who moves so quickly on its feet
It's like pieces of a puzzle
That I love to try and solve
It's so fun to think about
How a species has evolved

Is it a T-rex? (I keep digging, digging, digging, digging)
Maybe a Triceratops? (digging)
Or a Carnotaur? (digging)
Pachycephalosaurus?

Source: YouTube

The More You Know: Speaking of sequins, sometimes I think about how there were actual flying dinosaurs, like dinosaurs who could fucking FLY, and they were huge and wanted to - and could - gobble you up in a single snap o' the jaw. Can you imagine that today? Look out your window right now and imagine a dinosaur flying around.

(Oatmeal)

BUT it turns out that the fearsome pterodactyl was not a dinosaur at all, just a regular ol' "prehistoric winged lizard." Boring!

Pterosaurs are sometimes referred to in the popular media as dinosaurs, but this is incorrect. The term "dinosaur" is properly restricted to a certain group of reptiles with a unique upright stance (superorder Dinosauria, which includes birds), and therefore excludes the pterosaurs, as well as the various groups of extinct marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.

Oh, it's also not called a pterodactyl - it's a pterosaur. At least 60 genera of pterosaurs have been found to date, ranging from the size of a small bird to wingspans in excess of 10 meters (33 ft).

What's the rest of the song "I love you, a bushel and a peck"?

Search: bushel and a peck

Why: This morning, (this might make you throw up; sorry) Chandler sang the first lines thusly:

I love you, a bushel and a peck
A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck

And then he stopped. So I continued:

A hug around the neck and a barrel and a heap
A barrel and a heap, and I'm talkin in my sleep
About yooou

And he said, "There's more to that song? My mom only knew the first 2 lines."

And I think maybe my mom only knew the first 5 lines.

Answer: Oh my goodness, it's a whole song. My world just got upended. And it's from Guys and Dolls, which I've seen several times (on stage; it's not in the movie). It was written for Guys and Dolls in 1950, and a recording by Perry Como and Betty Hutton was on the charts for 18 weeks that year.

More recently, here's Jane Krakowski singing it / stripping:

Hoo! Lyrics go like:

My heart is leapin'!
I'm having trouble sleepin'!
'Cause I love you, a bushel and a peck
You bet your pretty neck I do!
Doodle oodle oodle oo.

I love you, a bushel and a peck
A bushel and a peck, go and beats me all to heck!
Beats me all to heck how I'll ever tend the farm
Ever tend the farm when I want to keep my
Arms - about you

The cows and chickens
are goin' to the dickens!
'Cause I love you a bushel and a peck
You bet your pretty neck I do

Source: All Musicals,

The More You Know: Look how darling Google is:

A bushel is a unit of dry volume = 8 dry / "corn" gallons. A peck is 2 dry gallons, 8 dry quarts, or 16 dry pints.

Why does Chicago have so many Polish people?

Search: chicago polish

Why: I am listening to "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens on his album Illinois (which also features a song called "Chicago"). I don't know who that guy is, but he sounds Polish (like Sharon Cherski and Brian Krakow [who are not from Chicago]).

Answer: They started with a small community that got bigger! The first Polish emigrants to Chicago were noblemen who had fled Poland after the Polish-Russian War (1830–31). They arrived with plans of establishing a “New Poland” in Illinois. Why Illinois? I have no idea. I mean, why not? Among these early settlers was John Napieralski, believed to have been the first Pole in Chicago.

By the time of the Civil War, 500-ish Poles had created a small community on the Northwest Side; carpenter / grocer Anthony Smarzewski-Schermann and Union Captain Peter Kiolbassa served as local leaders. They built a church and took on roles in the city and state government.

Then, Polish Chicago ("Polonia") was shaped by at least 3 distinct immigration waves:

1. 1850s to early-1920s - Za Chłebem ("For Bread") was driven primarily by economic and structural change in Poland. This wave was mostly peasants, and they went until restrictions during WWI cut off this immigration. By 1930, Polish immigrants and their children had replaced Germans as the largest ethnic group in Chicago.
2. Post-WWII - Hundreds of thousands of Poles were displaced by WWII and then by the Communist takeover of Poland.
3. 1980s - The "Solidarity" immigration began as a result of the imposition of martial law in Poland (1981) and the decade-long struggle to bring democracy to the Polish Republic. These new immigrants were mainly professionals, artists, and intellectuals that ultimately influenced the cultural and institutional life of Chicago's Polish community.

They had conflicts, of course, about ethnic identity, Catholicism, and land ownership, but now they are living large as heroes and Sausage Kings.

Na zdrowie!

Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago

The More You Know: Incidentally, have you heard this song "Single Again" by Shytown (who is also from Chicago, natch)? It's a pretty catchy jam:

What does that hipster song with the whistling sound like?

Search: peter bjorn john

Why: On Reddit, "Nailed it in one!":

Answer: Oh yeah. I know this song.

Source: YouTube

The More You Know: That band is Swedish, and that girl singer is a guest from The Concretes. That song "Young Folks" has been in

• 21
  
• Californication
• Dirty Sexy Money
• Gossip Girl
• Grey's Anatomy
• How I Met Your Mother
  
• The Love Guru
• Nip/Tuck
• Parenthood
• and more!

and it kind of reminds me of the "Christmas Time" song on SNL.

I want to see some pictures of the band Cults

Search: cults band; madeline folin

Why: Oh my god, I can't take them out of my ears. I found them on my iPod last night on the airplane (thanks Kylie), and I haven't changed the channel since. Have you heard this superdarling beef jerky* for the ears?

Did you listen to them?

Answer: Here they are! Their names are "Brian Oblivion"** and Madeline Folin. Look how eXoTiC:

They're both 21ish and a couple A COUPLE OF KNUCKLEHEADS. Read their interview here on Pitchfork THANKS PITCHFORK YOU ARE ALWAYS ON TOP OF THINGS. I don't know why I keep doing that IT'S BEEN A LONG WEEK I'M FREAKING OUT.

I kind of wish he would cut his hair omg KatriNA HOW DID YOU GET IN THAT PHOTOGRAPH? ^^^

Source: Google Images

The More You Know: Let's go see them soon!***

• Jul 26

  Mondrian Skybar

  Los Angeles, CA

• Jul 27

  The Echo

  Los Angeles, CA

• Jul 28

  Eagle Rock Center for the Arts

  Los Angeles, CA

Oh my god!

*Full disclosure: I had beef jerky for the first time this past Friday (in Texas, natch) and I've consumed 3 full sacks of it since then. Life starts now!

**Nathan Explosion?

***I just found out I have already seen this band open for The Morning Benders. Well, goddamn.

What'a a 5150?

Search: 5150

Why: In Ryan O'Connell's "Top Ten Celebrity Excuses for Acting Completely Bat Shit Insane" on Thought Catalog (I wasn't exaggerating):

Liar: Mischa Barton

Bullshit Meter: 9

Remember when Mischa Barton was placed under a 51/50 and spent two weeks in a mental hospital last year? Now, she’s telling everyone that it all stemmed from having her wisdom teeth removed. She explains, “I’d had enough (of the pain) and I went to the hospital. I am terrified of needles and they wanted to pump me full of drugs and I said, “No, absolutely not. I don’t want to be here,” and got into a fight with the nurses, and that led to my 5150.’ Okay, Mischa. No one’s going to believe that you’re afraid of needles because you look like Amy Winehouse’s wacky cousin. Also, it’s hard to believe that someone could be placed under a 51/50 for simply arguing with a nurse. Liar, Liar, skinny jeans on fire!

Answer: An involuntary psychiatric hold! Police code for "crazy on the loose"!

CALIFORNIA WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE, SECTION 5150, second paragraph:

"... an application in writing stating the circumstances under which the person's condition was called to the attention of the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person, and stating that the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person has probable cause to believe that the person is, as a result of mental disorder, a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled."

Source: Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia

The More You Know: Also the name of the 1986 Van Halen album that featured "Why Can't This Be Love," and also the name of a song on it.

What's the origin of the name "Skid Row"?

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Why: In Ryan O'Connell's "Living and Working in a Very Modern Family" on Thought Catalog, which I've been reading nonstop for the last 2 weeks:

My brother’s success surprised us all. After he barely graduated high school, my parents cut him off in a tough love attempt to foster motivation, and he moved into an apartment in Skid Row with his meager savings and no job prospects. When his money quickly depleted, he decided to start a website that would feature the grossest and most disturbing porn videos. In the first month, he made $2000 by cutting deals with advertisers, and everyone in my family was just like, “What?”

Answer: From the term "skid road"! In the 19th century, loggers in the Pacific Northwest made skid roads of old railroad ties or heavy wooden planks to get felled trees down to the mill. These are tied to the corduroy road:

A type of road made by placing sand-covered logs perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area

Anyway, "skid roads" eventually became associated with the areas where loggers hung out, and everyone knows that lumberjacks are burly men's men who only like booze and hookers. Stay away from Skid Road, ladies.

Source: Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia

The More You Know: Speaking of things that I have been obsessed with in my lifetime, according to my brother, I watched this movie every day when I was a little child. Here's a relevant song!

Recognize those gals? You saw two of them every Tuesday night on "Martin." They're named after popular doo-wop girl groups of the '60s.

What is the theme song to "Entourage"?

Search: entourage theme

Why: I hate it. Like, so much. It's so noisy and awful. Every time it comes on - which is often, because I am always watching channels that play "Entourage" re-runs (because they are also the channels that play "Friends" re-runs) - I experience a few horrible seconds where I'm all cringing and frantic to find the remote - like Alex would be upon hearing Ludwig Van, if there were remotes in the once and future '60s.

Answer: "Superhero" by Jane's Addiction. Figures. Download it on iTunes here.

Lyrics go like:

My mind had been enabled
In the memory you overflow
Wanna be your super hero
Even if i tumble fall

I'm OK
(you have that affect on me
but i need you desperately)
You know i need you desperately

Source: Yahoo! Answers

The More You Know: That is the second worst theme song ever. The first is from "Mama's Family." Oh, the late-90s nights it ruined!

What's the premise of "Halo"?

Search: halo

Why: We were just watching some commercial, and some guy on it looked like Iron Man, and I said, "Is that a Power Ranger?" and Chandler said, "That's Halo," and I asked if Halo was a person?, because I guess I always thought of it ("Halo") as some sort of place or universe or something, and he said he didn't really know... I think that brings us up to speed.

Answer: This is as much as I'm willing to read at this hour. You guys, I was woken up at 7:30 CST this morning because Sadie was catching a lizard, and then I went on 2 airplanes and to 3 airports, and now it's 12:30 PST...

In the past, an intelligent race called The Forerunners used their advanced technology to protect life, but were caught off-guard by an alien parasite known as the Flood. The Flood, which spread through infestation of sentient life, threatened and overran many worlds in the galaxy before the Forerunners could attempt to contain the threat. A group of Forerunners conceived a final solution—using an installation known as the Ark, they built seven large ring-shaped megastructures known as Halos. The Halo Array, when activated, would destroy all sentient life in the galaxy—depriving the Flood of their food. Delaying as long as they could, the Forerunners finally activated the rings and disappeared.

Here's the "Halo Array," I think:

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: Speaking of getting up at dawn, here is Ben's new favorite song. Get it out of your head!

What's the song on the Vitamin Water Zero Glow commercial?

Search: vitamin water zero

Why: I just saw it during "GLEE." There's a frog or toad in it. The lyrics and voices sound French, like Stereolab.

Answer: It's Stereolab! The song is is "Lo Boob Oscillator" from the 1995 album Refried Ectoplasm, which I owned at some point in my life but haven't seen in years. Buy it here on iTunes.

Maybe you also know that song because it's in High Fidelity. Remember? Caroline Fortis asks, "Is this Stereolab?"

Source: Yahoo! Answers, Popisms

The More You Know: A better album is Emperor Tomato Ketchup. I bet you would like this song, "Cybele's Reverie."

I watch to hear the song "The General" by Dispatch

Search: dispatch the general

Why: Keely just posted this article about their first album in 10 years, which is probably how long it's been since I heard that song.

Answer: Well, here it is! What a nice jam.

Source: YouTube

The More You Know: Dispatch used to be called One Fell Swoop. When I was in 9th grade or whatever, I probably told people that I had known them since the name change, but that wasn't even a little bit true. Not even a little bit! That was probably before I ever even had my first Discman.

Anyway, all the people in that band went to Middlebury (and graduated before I hit middle school!). They are playing at the Greek Theatre in June; maybe I will go.

When does the new Danger Mouse album come out?

Search: danger mouse

Why: They've been playing the shit out of it all week on "Morning Becomes Eclectic." Here is "Two Against One" featuring Jack White:

Answer: May 16th! It's called Rome, and it's actually by both Danger Mouse and Italian composer Danielle Luppi. Jack White sings on 3 tracks, and Norah Jones sings on 3 others - one of which Jason Bentley played yesterday and the day before. It will probably be the first album I buy in 2011.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: We bowled next to Danger Mouse (Brian Joseph Burton, 1977, White Plains, NY) one time at The Spare Room. His friends were kind of dicks.

Wow, did you know he produced all these albums? It's true!

• Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)
• Danger Doom – The Mouse & The Mask (2005)
• The Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love (2006)
• Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (2006)
• Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere (2006)
• The Good, the Bad and the Queen (2007)
• The Black Keys – Attack & Release (2008)
• Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple (2008)
• The Shortwave Set – Replica Sun Machine (2008)
• Martina Topley-Bird – The Blue God (2008)
• Beck – Modern Guilt (2008)
• Joker's Daughter – The Last Laugh (2009)
• Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night of the Soul (2010)
• Broken Bells – Broken Bells (2010)
• The Black Keys – Brothers (2010)
• Broken Bells – Meyrin Fields - EP (2011)
• Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi – Rome (2011)
• U2 – TBA (2011)

Who are some famous lady directors?

Search: female directors

Why: We finally watched Winter's Boner last night. As I was Googling halfway through, I learned that the director Debra Granik is from Cambridge, MA, and graduated from both Brandeis and Tisch. None of those places is anything like crank haven rural Missoura. And it kind of makes me hate her / the movie / everyone who had anything to do with it.

Anyway, we started naming female directors, and we got as far as Kathryn Bigelow and "the girl who did 1492" (who turned out to be Ridley Scott).

Answer: Here are some!

• Kathryn Bigelow!

The Hurt Locker (2008; first woman to win Academy Award for Best Director), Point Break (1991), 1 hour of "Wild Palms," married to James Cameron 1989-1991

• Jane Campion!

The Piano (1993; second woman ever to be nominated for Best Director), Portrait of a Lady (1996)

• Lisa Cholodenko!

The Kids Are All Right (2010), Laurel Canyon (2002)

• Sofia Coppola!

Lost in Translation (2003; nominated for Best Director), Marie Antoinette (2006), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Somewhere (2010), married to Spike Jonze 1999-2003

• Nora Ephron!

Sleepless in Seattle (1993), You've Got Mail (1998), Julie & Julia (2009), Bewitched (2005); also wrote When Harry Met Sally (1989) but didn't direct it

• Catherine Hardwicke!
  

Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Thirteen (2003)

• Mary Harron!

American Psycho (2000) [WHAT!]

• Amy Heckerling!
  

Clueless (1995), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Look Who's Talking (1989), Vamps (2011)!!!!!

• Nicole Holofcener!

Lovely and Amazing (2001), Friends with Money (2006), Please Give (2010) [<-- we actually watched this not long ago because it was free on OnDemand; it's pretty dece]

• Penny Marshall!

Big (1988), A League of Their Own (1992), Awakenings (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996)

• Nancy Meyers!

It's Complicated (2009), The Holiday (2006), Something's Gotta Give (2003), What Women Want (2000), The Parent Trap (1998)

• Mira Nair!
  

Monsoon Wedding (2001), Amelia (2009) Vanity Fair (2004), The Namesake (2006)

• Kimberly Peirce!

Boys Don't Cry (1999)

• Lone Scherfig!

An Education (2009)

• Penelope Spheeris!

Wayne's World (1992), Black Sheep (1996), The Little Rascals (1994), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)

• Julie Taymor!

Frida (2002), Across the Universe (2007)

Source: MovieFone, Film.com, MetaCritic

The More You Know: Totally unrelated, but every time, every time I hear someone say "Winter's Bone," I sing this song "Winterlong," which is apparently by Neil Young, but I only know it by The Pixies. It's like a disease.

What's the sample on "Black Magic" by Jarvis Cocker?

Search: black magic jarvis

Why: I am listening to it now and blanking. Blanking! It kind of reminds me of... I dunno, Rocky Horror Show?

Answer: "Crimson and Clover"! Doy! This jam was recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells in 1968.

Source: Pulp Wiki

The More You Know: Also, only because I have been thinking about it for a while and just listened to it for the first time in a long time, maybe years, here is my favorite song "Sugar Spun Sister" by The Stone Roses.

Is "Morning's Here" a real song?

Search: morning's here

Why: Joey's neighbor sang it every morning. I swear I heard an instrumental version of it tonight in Nature Mart.

Answer: Oh my jesus, YES!!! Except not with those words. Not with any words, in fact. The tune is from a 1977 track called "Feels So Good" by Chuck Mangione, who plays the flugelhorn.

That record was nominated for a Grammy.

Source: Yahoo! Answers

The More You Know: Now I bet you're going, "Wait, I've also heard the name Chuck Mangione on 'Friends,'" and you're totally right. Phoebe's birthmom Phoebe had a picture of him on her refrigerator. She sold him a house last year.

What is Paradise Circus?

Search: Paradise Circus

Why: On PostSecret:

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Paradise Circus

Answer: It's a song by Massive Attack! Listen here:

Did you know that the opening theme to "House" is by Massive Attack? It's called "Teardrop."

Source: YouTube

The More You Know: The image of that postcard is labeled "pinkmoonsmine." "Pink Moon" is by Nick Drake, who died in 1974 at age 26. Maybe you remember that song from this awesome Volkswagen Cabrio commercial from 1999:

What are the words to "Friday I'm in Love"?

Search: friday im in love

Why: I just saw this on Urlesque in "Top Ten Song Charts (By the 'I Love Charts' Master)":

It's a Threadless shirt from several years ago that I'm just getting around to seeing.

I know most of the words, but apparently not all of them.

Answer: Here are the important parts:

I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday, I'm in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love

(Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate)

I don't care if Mondays black
Tuesday, Wednesday - heart attack
Thursday, never looking back
It's Friday, I'm in love

Monday, you can hold your head
Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday - watch the walls instead
It's Friday, I'm in love

Listen along and contemplate Robert Smith's hair and wardrobe here.

Source: Sing365

The More You Know: I also like this one.

Who is that actress in the "Day-O" scene in Beetlejuice?

Search: beetlejuice

Why: Katrina went to see Twin Sister in concert, which I kind of can't believe because when we saw them open for The Morning Benders, we couldn't stop talking about how they were the worst opening band in all of history. The lead singer Andrea Estella reminds me of that lady.

Answer: Adelle Lutz! She is a costume designer by day. And she was - get this - married to David Byrne from 1987-2004! WHAT! Together, they have a daughter named Malu Valentine (b. 1990).

(Their kid: )

Lutz also played a TV anchorwoman in Silence of the Lambs, so now I guess that's what I'll be looking for for the rest of the evening.

Source: IMDb

The More You Know: That character's name is Beryl, by the way. Pretty!

Day o, beetlejuice by speedy94200

Kids! You know I love them. Fun fact: Harry Belafonte is my favorite singer.

Why is the last little part of a joint called a roach?

Search: roach

Why: On "1001 rules for my unborn son":

16. You are what you do, not what you say.

"On matters of style, swim with the current. On matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson's Airplane

And then, of course, I went rooting around for the origin of the name Jefferson Airplane (because - according to my brother - my favorite song when I was 5 was "We Built This City" by Starship), and I saw this:

The origin of the group's name is often disputed. "Jefferson airplane" is slang for a used paper match split to hold a marijuana joint that has been smoked too short to hold without burning the fingers - an improvised roach clip.

Answer: It comes from Mexican slang! Tobacco adulterated with marijuana or a cigarette stub of marijuana is called cucaracha (cockroach).

In Spanish, tabaco de cucaracha refers to adulterated tobacco generally.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: So yes, there are a bunch of different versions of the song "La Cucaracha," but this is the one verse I learned when I took Spanish when I was, like, 10. I remember the first 3 lines, but not the 4th:

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Marihuana pa' fumar

The cockroach, the cockroach
Can't walk anymore
Because it doesn't have, because it's lacking
Marijuana to smoke

It's some sort of satire about the Mexican Revolution, and lyrics and stanzas have changed and developed over time to fit the mood of the country. In general, the cockroach represents President Victoriano Huerta, a notorious drunk who was considered a villain and traitor due to his part in the death of revolutionary President Francisco Madero in 1913.