In this, their twenty-first episode, Jesse, Rian, and special guest Ricky Robertson discuss:
- How to properly conduct yourself when you are a guest on a podcast
- What Jesse has been up to
- Why Ricky liked Transformers
- Playstation 3 vs. XBox 360, Grand Theft Auto, and other video game subjects
- How best to spend your birthday money
- How to be a Hero without a Guitar and how to Rock without a Band
- What it's like to be a fan of bad artists part 1
- Popping Ricky's New York cherry
- The joy of spending 8 hours on a bus with bitchy old women
- Celebrating Sidetracked's 21st birthday proper
- What comics Rian and Ricky have been reading lately
- Which Superman stories are worth reading
- Hardcover collections: The devil is in the details
- A debate over the worth of Alex Ross
- What it's like to be a fan of bad artists part 2
- What movies Rian (and in some cases Ricky) has been watching
- Whether $5 is better spent on Tears of the Sun or 20 Alfred Hitchcock films
- When nostalgia blurs the lines of better judgement
- Cartoons
- Ricky's rapping roots
- Once in a lifetime live musical performances by Rian Miller and Askani' Son
...and multiple other topics. Come along, won't you, as Jesse, Rian, and Ricky get Sidetracked.
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Episode 21 Song List:
You Can't Hide - Weapon X feat. Louis Mackey, Askani' Son, and GBH
Jack-Ass - Beck
The Eraser - Thom Yorke
F*cking In The Bushes - Oasis
Loose Lips - Kimya Dawson
Killer Queen - Queen
Peculiar People - MuteMath
Double Bass - Gorillaz
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Cake
Psychopsilocybin - Incubus
Fergalicious - Fergie
HollaBack Girl - Gwen Stefani
My Poor Brain - Foo Fighters
Aberinkula - The Mars Volta
Broken Boy Soldier - The Raconteurs
Meat Plow - STP
What Do You Want From Me - Pink Floyd
Oh Yea - Yello13
White, Discussion - Live
Public Service Announcement - Jay Z
Hip Hop - Mos Def
This podcast is fucking hilarious. Jesse sounds SO non-plussed the entire episode.
ReplyDeleteA collection of assholes...
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ReplyDeleteAnd Mignola rocks the balls off his compositions. His style has evolved (or in some people's opinions) devolved, into more "suggestive" detail (meaning the viewer is making up the detail lost in the shadowy blacks of the art). I feel his art was the absolute "THE BALLz-ROCKIN' SHIT" around Volumes 2-5. Right now his work is still nice, but the man needs to start drawing interiors.
No one should get into such a heated argument about Alex Ross and Mike Mignola. Alex Ross is skilled, but if I see one more painting of grinning, chisel-chinned fucks like AquaMan looking up into the air with light blue and green reflective-light shadows ABOUND, I will... well, I won't pick up the book. which is why I haven't in a while. I loved Kingdom Come and U.S., though. Good stuff.
Jesse's right, btw. Alex Ross has been reported as being a HUGE PRICK in person.
Mignola gave us Amazing Screw-On Head. That alone puts Alex Ross on the losing side of this argument.
Ricky nailed Rian's inability to appreciate "Less than perfect" movies RIGHT on the HEAD. He doesn't like most things and definitely should not be given suggestions by other people of what movies to watch.
ReplyDeleteThat was probably the best episode to date. Ricky needs to be back on.
ReplyDeletemy biggest problem with alex ross is since he makes everything look so real, it makes it look stupid like if you were hanging out and green lantern flew over head you wouldnt be like oh man there goes green lantern, you would look up and start laughing because he looks like such a tool.
ReplyDeleteand why wouldnt someone be walking around with an xbox during a huge transforming robots battle royale in the middle of the city. Happens all the time. And the hacker subplot of transformers was easily one of the worst things ive ever seen, or the secrety of defense fighting with a musket in the basement of the dam. god that movie sucked
ricky is just diet Rian
Woah, woah, woah! I have an inability to appreciate less than perfect movies? I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but come on...
ReplyDeleteAmerican Pie
Bad Boys
Big Trouble In Little China
Blade
Blowin' Smoke
Breakdown
Bubba Ho-Tep
Castle Freak
Chill Factor
Cube
D.E.B.S.
Death Race 2000
Desperate Measures
Disturbia
Eurotrip
The Faculty
Feast
From Beyond
Haggard
Hell Comes To Frogtown
Hulk
And that's just the letters A through H on my "Favorite Movies" list on my MySpace page. Not to mention that I'm one of the big supporters of Spiderman 3 despite it's obvious flaws. How about all the Jackie Chan movies I watch or when I was on my Farrelly Brothers kick a while ago praising movies like Stuck On You and Fever Pitch? I'd hesitate to call just about any of those perfect. Just because I didn't like The Breakfast Club and have a feeling that I won't love Ferris Bueller doesn't mean that I don't like any "less than perfect" movies.
On other matters, I LOVE Mignola's work and always have. I was just trying to come up with someone else who doesn't produce a lot of sequential work these days that I could try to compare to Alex Ross for the sake of argument. As for Ross' personality, I don't really know much about the guy aside from his artwork.
"Ricky is just diet Rian" - That made me laugh.
It all comes down to opinions, Rian. Some of the movies you listed are definitely cult favorites, which kind of fit aesthetically into a different category than just "less than perfect" movies. "Big Trouble in Little China" is a good example. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is another good example. I hope you do like it, for your sake.
ReplyDeleteTo here you prattle on, critiquing some good old fan favorites with no good real points is always frustrating. Sometimes you have good points, and I can't gripe (like the Bourne movies, or hell, even Wes Anderson flicks, which I believe you must be impervious to human emotions to not understand why those movies are so good, and to gripe about Anderson's "shtick" is like griping over Scorsese's shtick or Darren Aronofsky's shtick-I digress- But yes, I can't gripe about why you don't like them, they're just not for you).
Most times though, you nitpick the fuck out of movies that are above that certain brand of scrutiny you bring forward. You just become the guy who doesn't get it. I fear that when you don't enjoy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, that I will once again hear another episode of Sidetracked where I wish I was physically there to smash your keyboard over your dvd player, all in good fun, of course.
I always have to remind myself, and thank you for bringing it up, that I shouldn't be too concerned with what you say, because you do love Spider-Man 3.
And I know what you were doing with the Alex Ross/Mike Mignola thing. I was throwing in my two cents on the subject, because Jesse seemed tongue-tied the whole episode and did not provide a good counter-argument to yours (not that I was providing one either, I really don't care if you guys like Alex Ross or Mike Mignola). I felt the need to state that if given the choice, I would read a book with Mike Mignola's name on it EVERYTIME over something with Alex Ross'.
Don't get me wrong, I like Wes Anderson's movies (though I'm not a big fan of Bottle Rocket, which is odd considering that it has the least amount of the style which I've been calling Anderson to task for). Just because I'm getting tired of his shtick doesn't mean I don't like his work. His style is just beginning to wear out for me. I'll agree that just about any director, my favorites included, have their own shticks, but I feel that Anderson's is more blatant than most, and as such, becomes tiring rather quickly. Scorcese seemingly can't make a movie without a quick cut to a music beat leading into a montage with an overlying narration, true, but between all of those quirks I'd be rather hard-pressed to tell his films apart from many others. In Anderson's case, every single second of his films ooze an unmistakable style. Again, this isn't bad, and is often times good, but for me has just become a bit stale.
ReplyDeleteAs for Ferris Bueller, so long as Netflix doesn't fail me, I should have a copy in my hands sometime today (Wednesday), which means that you'll be hearing my opinions on the next show. Come to think of it, we should start a new segment in which people (namely you, Karl) recommend a movie to me for each episode and then I can bring your blood to a boil on a weekly basis. That could be quite fun.
Finally, I too would buy a Mignola book over a Ross book any day. However, if I had six dollars in my pocket, I'd most likely buy both unless there were a Corben or Charest book on the shelves that particular week. Speaking of which...man...why don't any of my favorite artists put out work on a regular basis?
AH MAN!!! These are some hilarious comments. I had a good time doing the show and I'll definitely be back on if these assholes let me.
ReplyDelete-Karl, thanks for the props on pwning Rian!!
-Joel, I'd like to see you laugh at Green Lantern--he'd slap you in the chin with a huge flourescent green dildo!! Diet Rian!?!? I'm the fuckin grape soda to his Mr. Pibb!!!
-Rian doesn't have any human emotions. Wes Anderson rules.
-Rian, you're fav artists don't come out with shit often because they're too good. If Michael Turner drew one comic a year you'd love him too!!!
-HAHAH, arguing!!!
I finally have a name!!!
ReplyDeleteIf Michael Turner only came out with work once a year, maybe he'd have time to fix some of his mistakes, get a critique or two, and read a how to draw book. Then again, I'm not even sure how often the guy comes out with non-cover work, so maybe he already has tons of time and just doesn't try very hard.
ReplyDeleteOh, and fuck Mr. Pibb. That shit's whack!