COMMUNITY RETURNS ON MARCH 15th!

Community FINALLY returns to Thursday night television on March 15th!  To get fans psyched up, the show has produced three animated shorts.  While they are no substitute for full on Community content, they will hold us over until the triumphant return of the show in their miserable 7:00pm time slot.  ENJOY!




Here are a few more cool things from the Community website to get you psyched!

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2012

Don't stress out if you guys aren't Yoko fans yet. SHUFFLE FUNCTION BELIEVES IN YOU AND WILL NOT GIVE UP ON YOU! You can do it. Maybe this mix that Yoko put together to celebrate International Women's Day will do the trick?

 BTW, HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
 

Other Yoko Awesomeness... THE PLASTIC ONO BAND/FLAMING LIPS EP!

AN INTRODUCTION TO YOKO ONO!

TMLOSBT #2 REVISITED!

BONUS KRISTEN SCHAAL!

best time waster today

AS AWESOME AS THIS PICTURE IS ABOVE, FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR THE FULL EFFECT.

RUN BATMAN RUN

and now here's the Parks And Rec Paleyfest 2012 clip you asked for

The Community panel was oustanding and I am pretty sure this will be too! Sadly, there are a number of cast members missing (notably Nick Offerman!), but we will make do.

here it is, in it's entirety:

                            

THE SMITHS IN 8 BIT!

Thanks to Dangerous Minds for pointing the way!

that COMMUNITY thing Shyboy Tim mentioned

I haven't watched this yet but I plan to right after I post it. Shyboy Tim told us about this recent event on the air this morning, and I am pleased to see that it has been posted on-line. If you can't wait until Community returns to the TVs on March 15th, then maybe this will help.

Community PaleyFest 2012

 

BELUSHI: 30 YEARS ON

John Belushi died 30 years ago today. I gotta go watch Animal House.

 Shyboy

GIZMONICS ON SNL (aka Joel as a baby)

THE MANY LOVES OF SHYBOY TIM #6

The sixth in a series highlighting the seemingly endless pop culture crushes of Shyboy Tim.  In this installment:

LAUREN GRAHAM

Lauren Graham?  MORE LIKE LAUREN YAY-YUM!

Ewww... sorry about that.  I think I just grossed myself out.  But honestly... I've had a crush on Lauren Graham, and not just from Gilmore Girls.  Years earlier she did a multi-episode guest spot on News Radio (a favorite show of mine) and she stood out in a cast of heavy hitters.  She also had some great scenes with Maura Tierney, a future Many Loves awesome person.  Many years later they were both on Celebrity Poker Showdown and ended up battling for the championship, which I'm fairly certain was taken from a page in my dream journal.

But I digress...

Gilmore Girls premiered during a very rough year for me.  A long relationship came to an end, and I was at a crossroads.  I had heard about the show on Aint It Cool News, and the word was that it was smart and well written.  I figured if a show that came off in the ads as being skewed towards a female demographic could win over a male-ish fanboy community that it might be worth  checking out.

So the first thing you hear in the very first episode of Gilmore Girls is The La's song There She Goes, which seemed like a good sign, and then the camera follows Lauren Graham as she crosses the street to meet her daughter for coffee at Luke's Diner.  She then proceeds to cut down a doofus Kerouac wanna be with some amazing dialogue, and I was forever smitten.

I used to get a ridiculous feeling in my chest when she'd appear  on screen, which may say more about where I was at in my life than anything.  Basically, at a time in my life when I was feeling pretty crappy, she was this amazing (albeit fictional) woman that I would totally have fallen in love with if I had met her.  I guess she gave me something to shoot for or something.  Or she just made me lame.  But whatever the case may be, I have been a Lauren Graham fan ever since.

Here's the thing:  I can't watch Parenthood.  I know she's great in it, and I know that she's still super Lauren Graham-y on the show, but after seeing her play Super Mom on Gilmore Girls, I just can't watch her be any other kind of parent.  Can't help it.  Don't wanna argue.

Also, there's Bad Santa.  I'm not going to comment.

Anyway, here's a bunch of Lauren Graham, one of the many loves of Shyboy Tim.

Yours,
Shyboy

best hardware store and bester weekends

This is where I spent the weekend with my family - in the middle of the woods and with over a foot of snow. In fact it never stopped snowing the whole time I was there - and snow globe snow, if you know what I mean. Perfect for hard core snowshoeing - where I was in snow over my knees. It kicked my ass, and tore up my ankles, but I loved every minute of it. Good food, nowhere to go because the car is stuck in the drive and can be dealt with later, and serious Rock Band 2 workouts with the nieces = AWESOME SAUCE!

The blisters I got from snowshoeing were a blessing in disguise, and why I am sharing my weekend with you all. I had to get some big band aids to cover the bloodbath. That lead to the nearest town's Hardware store, which happened to be one of the best I have ever been to. They claimed to have everything, and I believe them. I saw model kits from Aurora for the Sgt. Pepper Beatles - all of them! They had a wall filled with Precious Moments figurines. There were over ten "Ziggy" statuettes (yes the comic book Ziggy). Alcohol, guns, bullets, porn, clothes, decorations for every holiday, live bait, coffee, groceries, you name it they had it.

This short video sent me back about 30 years!!



Another one of my favorite finds was the "high tech" shelf. I won't tell you what is there, but I will tell you that I am not sure that they make half of the electronic items that use the "high tech" products that they sell. Look for yourselves Luddites -

In the back of the store they had shelves and shelves of old video tapes from when they ha rented movies in the past. I could have bought a lot more titles, but I tried to keep myself under control. But there were three movies I just couldn't pass up. Two are for me, and one is for Shyboy Tim, if he doesn't already have a copy. I'll let you guess which is which.





See you in the morning -

Shelley

program note for tonight's show

Just so you aren't confused when you tune in to tonight's Shuffle Function show at 6 p.m., Shyboy Tim and I are joined by "Listen To Your Folks" radio guru Dave Engen. Two of the studios at KMSU are under construction and that has made it a little more difficult to get into a studio to record. Dave sat in on last weeks show and we had so much fun we thought, why not try it again? Tonight he picked the playlist, and he did a great job of it! Hear for yourself at 89.7 on your radio dial.

Here is Dave and his favorite band - Deerhoof. Sadly I don't think he played any on the show tonight. Oh well, there is always next time.

Shelley

HOW 'BOUT ONE FOR THE FLIPSIDE?

By now you have probably all heard the news about Davy Jones passing away.  It's been pretty sad around these parts, and if you listened to the show this morning you got to hear us do our best to try and pay tribute to a guy that a lot of people are missing today.  We were fortunate enough to be joined by Deb A-Go-Go, the biggest Monkees fan we know, and she helped us make sure we didn't miss any songs that needed to be played.

Mike Nesmith wrote this amazing tribute to his friend and bandmate:

1. All the lovely people. Where do they all come from?
   
   So many lovely and heartfelt messages of condolence and sympathy, I don’t know what to say, except my sincere thank you to all. I share and appreciate your feelings.
   
   But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.
   
   While it is jarring, and sometimes seems unjust, or strange, this transition we call dying and death is a constant in the mortal exp...erience that we know almost nothing about. I am of the mind that it is a transition and I carry with me a certainty of the continuity of existence. While I don’t exactly know what happens in these times, there is an ongoing sense of life that reaches in my mind out far beyond the near horizons of mortality and into the reaches of infinity.
   
   That David has stepped beyond my view causes me the sadness that it does many of you. I will miss him, but I won’t abandon him to mortality. I will think of him as existing within the animating life that insures existence. I will think of him and his family with that gentle regard in spite of all the contrary appearances on the mortal plane.
   
   David’s spirit and soul live well in my heart, among all the lovely people, who remember with me the good times, and the healing times, that were created for so many, including us.
   
   I have fond memories. I wish him safe travels.

Here are some of our favorite moments from Davy:



 Here's a bonus Monkees song. It was the last song we played on the show this morning.

No Orbs Here....

I didn't get to take a lot of pictures this morning during our Second Halloween festivities, but I did document the Houdini shrine we built for him in hopes of his making an appearance. Houdini was dedicated to debunking those who claimed to speak to the spirit world, but after his mother passed away he tried in vain to contact her. He made a pact with his wife that if he were to die, he would do everything in his power to reach out to her from the other side. If it could be done, the master escape artist was sure he would do it. Halloween was designated to be the day he would reach out, and for years and years seances were held in attempt to do so. All of them were unsuccessful.

As far as we know. nobody has ever tried to contact Houdini on Second Halloween, so we gave it a shot this morning. We left a microphone open for him - just in case he wanted to join the conversation. We also offered him his favorite food, "Farmer's Chop Suey".

We didn't hear a peep from Houdini this morning but we had a blast. Thanks to all of the trick or treaters who joined us in the studio - and for all of the great Second Halloween requests. Shyboy Tim has a bunch of photos that he will share soon, so check back for more.



Shelley

UPDATE:  Here are Shyboy Tim's photos!  BEST.  SECOND HALLOWEEN.  EVER!

Shyboy Tim in his Sunday best. 

Shelley as pantomime horse.

 Radio hero Robyn didn't let Second Halloween pass her by!

Do spirits return? 

Tom and Chantil with pantomime horse. 

Zombie Killer 

Henry blows out Houdini's candle.

Thanks to all the Trick-Or-Treaters that stopped in to make this the best Second Halloween on record.  It's just a shame that it only rolls around every four years!  We didn't have any luck contacting Houdini, but there's always next Leap Year.

Cool side note:  Second Halloween was mentioned on somebody's Twitter feed!