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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Saturday, September 29, 2018
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (88)
The hostile takeover of the AJAX Corporation by ACME has hit a snag. So The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is going back to reviewing some of ACME's excellent products.
A page from the ACME Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the 1957 Sylvester and Elmer Fudd (with a brief cameo from Tweety Bird) Looney Tunes cartoon, Heir-Conditioned:
This was the second of three cartoons on the wonders of capitalism underwritten by the right-wing leaning Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The others were By Word of Mouse and Yankee Dood It.
Since we were listening to Portishead last week, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been listening to more trip-hop (no illegal drugs were involved.) And if you are listening to trip-hop, all road must lead to Massive Attack. During the tour to promote their 1998 album Mezzanine, Massive Attack, one of the forefathers of the trip-hop movement, appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London on June 7, 1998. They recorded a live album of their concert. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to take you back to that evening a little more than 20 years ago. As we have in the past, we encourage you to find a comfy seat, stake it and enjoy.
We're listening to the album now on our road trip to visit SOS at her college, The School for Wayward and Deplorable Children.
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A page from the ACME Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the 1957 Sylvester and Elmer Fudd (with a brief cameo from Tweety Bird) Looney Tunes cartoon, Heir-Conditioned:
This was the second of three cartoons on the wonders of capitalism underwritten by the right-wing leaning Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The others were By Word of Mouse and Yankee Dood It.
Since we were listening to Portishead last week, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been listening to more trip-hop (no illegal drugs were involved.) And if you are listening to trip-hop, all road must lead to Massive Attack. During the tour to promote their 1998 album Mezzanine, Massive Attack, one of the forefathers of the trip-hop movement, appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London on June 7, 1998. They recorded a live album of their concert. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to take you back to that evening a little more than 20 years ago. As we have in the past, we encourage you to find a comfy seat, stake it and enjoy.
We're listening to the album now on our road trip to visit SOS at her college, The School for Wayward and Deplorable Children.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, September 28, 2018
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
Dikephobia -
A deep psychological fear of justice.
(Again, this is running rampant throughout Washington DC.)
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(Again, this is running rampant throughout Washington DC.)
Demand Euphoria!
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Saturday, September 22, 2018
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (87)
The folks at ACME have been busy attempting a hostile takeover of their rival, AJAX Corporation. While all the fighting is going on, we are going to test out some of AJAX's premier products.
A page from the AJAX Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the Donald Duck 1948 Disney animated cartoon, Donald's Dream Voice:
The Donald's other voice is an obvious spoof of English actor Ronald Colman.
The staff has been thinking alot about old music venues in NYC that are now closed. Released in the fall of 1998, the Trip-Hop group Portishead’s July 24, 1997 concert at New York City’s now-shuttered Roseland Ballroom is one of the best performances you’ll ever see. The Bristol, England-bred band performs hits from their premiere album, Dummy, and their eponymous sophomore follow-up, Portishead, with a brass quintet and a thirty-three-piece orchestra. The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to enjoy this first day of autumn, watching this wonderful concert. So once again, find a spot, stake it and enjoy.
While everyone is good in this show, the real star of the show is unquestionably Beth Gibbons.
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A page from the AJAX Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the Donald Duck 1948 Disney animated cartoon, Donald's Dream Voice:
The Donald's other voice is an obvious spoof of English actor Ronald Colman.
The staff has been thinking alot about old music venues in NYC that are now closed. Released in the fall of 1998, the Trip-Hop group Portishead’s July 24, 1997 concert at New York City’s now-shuttered Roseland Ballroom is one of the best performances you’ll ever see. The Bristol, England-bred band performs hits from their premiere album, Dummy, and their eponymous sophomore follow-up, Portishead, with a brass quintet and a thirty-three-piece orchestra. The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to enjoy this first day of autumn, watching this wonderful concert. So once again, find a spot, stake it and enjoy.
While everyone is good in this show, the real star of the show is unquestionably Beth Gibbons.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, September 21, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Monday, September 17, 2018
Incarcerophobia -
A deep psychological fear of imprisonment.
(apparently this fear is running rampant throughout Washington DC.)
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(apparently this fear is running rampant throughout Washington DC.)
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
Saturday, September 15, 2018
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (85)
The folks at ACME are still attempting a hostile takeover of their rival, AJAX Corporation. While all the fighting is going on
we are going to test out some of AJAX's premier products.
Another page from the AJAX Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the 1946 Donald Duck/ Goofy Disney animated cartoon, Frank Duck Brings em Back Alive:
The title is a reference to hunter Frank Buck, who wrote the book Bring 'Em Back Alive.
There is not a damn reason in hell that The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is asking you to join them in listening to this 1980 concert of Warren Zevon in the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ except that it is good. It's a good. So find a spot on the couch, stake it and enjoy.
Actually we had a reason to listen to Mr. Zevon this evening; we read this good article about in on the Ringer website and it spurred us on.
Demand Euphoria!
Another page from the AJAX Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the 1946 Donald Duck/ Goofy Disney animated cartoon, Frank Duck Brings em Back Alive:
The title is a reference to hunter Frank Buck, who wrote the book Bring 'Em Back Alive.
There is not a damn reason in hell that The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is asking you to join them in listening to this 1980 concert of Warren Zevon in the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ except that it is good. It's a good. So find a spot on the couch, stake it and enjoy.
Actually we had a reason to listen to Mr. Zevon this evening; we read this good article about in on the Ringer website and it spurred us on.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, September 14, 2018
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Love leaves a memory no one can steal
How to write a poem after September 11th - Nikki Moustaki
First: Don’t use the word souls. Don’t use the word fire.
You can use the word tragic if you end it with a k.
The rules have changed. The word building may precede
The word fall, but only in the context of the buildings falling
Before the fall, the season we didn’t have in Manhattan
Because the weather refused, the air refused…
Don’t say the air smelled like smoldering desks and drywall,
Ground gypsum, and something terribly organic,
Don’t make a metaphor about the smell, because it wasn’t
A smell at all, but the air washed with working souls,
Piling bricks, one by one, spreading mortar.
Don’t compare the planes to birds. Please.
Don’t call the windows eyes. We know they saw it coming.
We know they didn’t blink. Don’t say they were sentinels.
Say: we hated them then we loved them then they were gone.
Say: we miss them. Say: there’s a gape. Then, say something
About love. It’s always good in a poem to mention love.
Say: If a man walks down stairs, somewhere
Another man is walking up. Say: He sits at his desk
And the other stands. He answers the phone and the other
Ends a call with a kiss. So, on a rainy dusk in some other
City of Commerce and Art, a mayor cuts a ribbon
With giant silver scissors. Are you writing this down?
Make the executives parade through the concourse,
Up the elevators, to the top, where the restaurant,
Open now for the first time, sets out a dinner buffet.
Press hard. Remember you’re writing with ashes.
Say: the phone didn’t work. Say: the bakery was out of cake,
The dogs in the pound howled. Say: the world hadn’t
Asked your permission to change. But you were asleep.
If only you had written more poems. If only you had written
More poems about love, about peace, about how abstractions
Become important outside the poem, outside. Then, then,
You could have squinted into the sky on September 11th
And said: thank you, thank you, nothing was broken today.
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Monday, September 10, 2018
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Saturday, September 8, 2018
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (84)
Welcome back from vacation friends. The folks at ACME have been busy attempting a hostile takeover of their rival, AJAX
Corporation. While all the fighting is going on, we are going to test out some of AJAX's premier products.
A page from the AJAX Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the Mickey Mouse/ Donald Duck/ Goofy 1937 Disney animated cartoon, Lonessome Ghost:
The animators had a special transparent ink developed to make convincing transparent ghosts. Goofy's line, "I ain't afraid of no ghosts," would later be used in the Ghostbusters movies.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the date September 8, 1965, in musical history. The television trade publications Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter ran ads seeking "Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series," on this date. The final four choices became the stars in the television show, The Monkees. We like to present The Monkees' film Head, which premiered November 20, 1968. Head poked holes in the facade of the music industry, the film and television industries, politics and human nature, with the main target being the Monkees themselves. The Monkees were, in effect, killing off their public image right in front of their fans. It was truly an unprecedented and brave, if possibly naive, move.
Not that we here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are condoning the smoking of cannabis but we are going to quote the original review of the film from The New York Times which wrote that it "might be a film to see if you have been smoking grass."
Rumors abound that the title was chosen because the producers, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, next project was Easy Rider. The advertisements would supposedly have read: "From the people who gave you HEAD" – the plan was rejected when Head's box-office nosedived. Five years after its premiere, the movie was shown in a 1973 Raybert retrospective, along with Five Easy Pieces) and Easy Rider, and finally gained a positive response from fans and critics.
Demand Euphoria!
A page from the AJAX Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the Mickey Mouse/ Donald Duck/ Goofy 1937 Disney animated cartoon, Lonessome Ghost:
The animators had a special transparent ink developed to make convincing transparent ghosts. Goofy's line, "I ain't afraid of no ghosts," would later be used in the Ghostbusters movies.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the date September 8, 1965, in musical history. The television trade publications Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter ran ads seeking "Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series," on this date. The final four choices became the stars in the television show, The Monkees. We like to present The Monkees' film Head, which premiered November 20, 1968. Head poked holes in the facade of the music industry, the film and television industries, politics and human nature, with the main target being the Monkees themselves. The Monkees were, in effect, killing off their public image right in front of their fans. It was truly an unprecedented and brave, if possibly naive, move.
Not that we here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are condoning the smoking of cannabis but we are going to quote the original review of the film from The New York Times which wrote that it "might be a film to see if you have been smoking grass."
Rumors abound that the title was chosen because the producers, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, next project was Easy Rider. The advertisements would supposedly have read: "From the people who gave you HEAD" – the plan was rejected when Head's box-office nosedived. Five years after its premiere, the movie was shown in a 1973 Raybert retrospective, along with Five Easy Pieces) and Easy Rider, and finally gained a positive response from fans and critics.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, September 7, 2018
Please drink responsibly
This has been another in a series of ACME court ordered PSAs.
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
Is there life on Mars?
I just came upon a Tomorrowland episode, Mars and Beyond, from ABC's weekly Disneyland TV program, originally shown in 1957. I really enjoyed this snippet featuring a cocktail drinking female superhero.
Keep an eye out for the scene when the Martians are chasing the Earth woman, Donald Duck is among the crowd of bizarre monsters.
Demand Euphoria!
Keep an eye out for the scene when the Martians are chasing the Earth woman, Donald Duck is among the crowd of bizarre monsters.
Demand Euphoria!
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Monday, September 3, 2018
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Saturday, September 1, 2018
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (83)
Another page from the ACME Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1955 Bugs Bunny/ Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, Beanstalk Bunny:
Look for the scene of Elmer sticking corks in his ears and trying to get Bugs and Daffy out of his head by smoking a cigarette (only for Bugs and Daffy to crawl through the cigarette to blow the match out); it's sometimes edited out when the cartoon is shown on TV.
(Original broadcast May 6, 2017 - show #14,) The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the anniversary of the recording Proud Mary, by Ike and Tina Turner getting a gold record on this date in 1971 by playing their import album Olympia 1971, recorded at the Olympia Theatre in Paris on January 30, 1971.
ACME recommends that you should definitely crank this one up.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1955 Bugs Bunny/ Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, Beanstalk Bunny:
Look for the scene of Elmer sticking corks in his ears and trying to get Bugs and Daffy out of his head by smoking a cigarette (only for Bugs and Daffy to crawl through the cigarette to blow the match out); it's sometimes edited out when the cartoon is shown on TV.
(Original broadcast May 6, 2017 - show #14,) The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the anniversary of the recording Proud Mary, by Ike and Tina Turner getting a gold record on this date in 1971 by playing their import album Olympia 1971, recorded at the Olympia Theatre in Paris on January 30, 1971.
ACME recommends that you should definitely crank this one up.
Demand Euphoria!
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