Tuesday, May 14 2013

Blanks and Empty Spaces

    I admit it: I have been terribly remiss in maintaining show notes for the podcast.  In fact, we barely had any show notes for all of 2012 and almost half of 2011!  In trying to correct this, I discovered twenty-three episodes are still needing show notes, covering a span of almost two years.  Talk about slacking.
    I’m confessing this now, not only to beat myself up about it, but as preface to posting a two-year old video.  While going back to do the show notes for Episode 152, I was reminded how we did not have a tailgate video for 2011.  We’ve got parking lot videos for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012 (as well as 1999 and 2000, and a 1998 roadtrip), but I never did post one for 2011—mainly because I had never gotten around to editing it.  I had my reasons, however.  The footage wasn’t so great, for one thing; it had been so hot that day I hadn’t gone around and shot as much as I’d wanted to.  Plus there’s an actual sweat stain on the camera lens, and I never noticed it all day since the sun was so bright.  I was so dissatisfied with the footage I kept avoiding working with it.
    But, in going through the episode again, I decided to go ahead with the edit anyway, just for the sake of it.  So, here’s the 2011 tailgate video, out of the archives…

    Update: That’s what happens when you impulsively start a video project.  I did the edit so fast I completely forgot to include my concert footage.  It wasn’t till I was doing the show notes for Episode 156 that I remembered the shot of the pirate ship on the lawn.  It’s been added in now, plus a few other shots, making the video forty-five seconds longer.

Monday, August 27 2012

Episode 166: All Night Long

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 22 2012 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
    “More stories from Comerica Park, an in-depth discussion of the Detroit setlist, and this year’s (brief) tailgate podcast. (Cameo by Annie [and Sarah].)”

    03:51 - track one on Pat Benatar’s Seven the Hard Way
    04:12 - Mike’s off-key “Fire away” is deliberate.  He’s making fun of an old and tone-deaf college room mate.
    06:30 - again, my concert and tailgate photos are at Flickr
    10:00 - and again, the concert and tailgate video was posted earlier
    20:33 - it’s not from our concert, but here’s “CILCIA” video roll from Cincinnati
    20:48 - I guess I bored Annie enough that she put her head down and took a nap
    23:15 - check for yourself
    26:22 - not sure why I never noticed that before since this was not the first time they’d done it
    29:54 - Little Caesar’s (a non-paid non-commercial non-endorsement)
    32:49 - my videos of both performances were posted below: Lionel’s and Jimmy’s.  An official video from that night is also available at iTunes.
    36:15 - oh me of little faith.  The Tigers did get into the World Series this year …and got shutout in four games
    36:57 - he did it three shows later, in Atlantic City (August 4 2012)
    43:50 - as seen on the Margarillas Facebook page:

Me want!

    44:18 - Cheli’s Chili, Detroit
    48:46 - using the Stream to Me app, which has been obsoleted now that iCloud is available (so they say)
    54:18 - no, why would Schmoe have seen it.  It was only posted on his own website two weeks ago!

      >  Download Episode 166

Friday, August 17 2012

Episode 165: A Lot Off

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 8 2012 (10:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
    “Our big Detroit concert podcast! So big it had to be split into two parts!  (Cameo by Hud.)”

    Photos of the day are at Flickr.
    My video of the tailgating is at YouTube.
    06:35 - “second lowest”: second highest of course.  Maybe I meant to say “next lowest”
    07:48 - my tweet (previously posted below).  By the way, Jimmy, the baseball stadium is “Co-mer-ica” Park (named after Comerica bank) and the football stadium is Ford Field.
    19:37 - now I’m showing my own ignorance (...again). I never put steak sauce on a burger so I have always assumed, till just this moment, that Jimmy’s mention of “Heinz 57” had to be as ketchup for those “french fried potatoes” of his.  (And despite Jimmy talking about it at length during the Episode 153 concert roundup that I edited.)
    21:44 - from Listener Wally’s Facebook page:

Parrotwrist

    27:29 - NERD!  (It’s a reference to the Doctor Who Series 6 episode “The Wedding of River Song”.)
    27:29 - ex-or-bi-tant ... not, “sorbet”
    37:50 - Google says the distance is 37 minutes (at 30.7 miles)
    39:20 - here’s the link to the Flickr set again; and here’s a photo of the limo gang and a photo of the infamous pitcher (and ice balls)
    40:05 - Arthur and the limo
    40:43 - here’s the tailgate video link again
    42:28 - Annie is convinced tapping one’s fingertips together is a “Smithers” rather than a “Mr Burns”
    52:31 - I heard this part first, thinking he’d only barely noticed my tweet.  It wasn’t till watching my recording later on that I found out he’d seen it twice.

      >  Download Episode 165

Tuesday, July 31 2012

Comerica Park Parrothead Video 2012

    Cellphone footage from around Comerica Park, Detroit MI.  From Saturday, July 28 2012.  My apologies for the shakiness; I didn’t have a real camcorder with me.

Sunday, July 29 2012

Jimmy Buffett - “All Night Long” (with Lionel Richie)

    Lionel Richie returns the favor.
    The second of two times we heard “All Night Long” last night.

Lionel Richie - “All Night Long” (with Jimmy Buffett)

    Some cell phone video from last night.
    The first of two times we heard “All Night Long” last night.

Friday, July 27 2012

Let the Games Begin

    Yeah, I heard there’s some worldwide sporting event going on, but for me tonight’s opening ceremonies were for tomorrow’s Comerica Park show and involved watching Jimmy Buffett and Mike Utley broadcast a video chat from backstage, on StageIt.com.
    Jimmy gave a spoiler about tomorrow’s setlist (about “All Night Long” specifically), played “Tin Cup Chalice” (by request) and “Boat Drinks” (for Hockeytown), and welcomed special guest Matt Hoggatt.
    Jimmy also gave away a Landshark surfboard and Frozen Concoction Makers to the highest bidder.  The show lasted about thirty-five minutes and was a very cool way to start this weekend’s festivities.
    Fins Up!

“Welcome…to Comerica Park,” says Richard Attenborough to Sam Neill

Jimmy reads my tweet!

The tweet itself