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This is unreal. I was at that concert. I WAS AT THAT FUCKING CONCERT. GET OUT.

Str(play "Walking on Sunshine" again)8

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That's Robert Smigel, isn't it? ...one of the Superfans from SNL and the creater of "Saturday TV Funhouse" and the superhero team "The Ambiguously Gay Duo"... NTTA Ambiguously WWT.

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I can't listen to Rick Astley without thinking of Bill Hicks profane monologue about late-80's pop music and popstars singing jingles for Diet Coke.

"Never gonna give you up, never gonna make you cry, Diiiiiiet Co-ho-oke for-ever."

(That's not the really funny part of the bit, but it's too raunchy even for the FB.)

Those "I love the 80's" specials are addictive. You turn on the TV, it's 1982, and 5 hours later you think to youself, "Well, I've already invested most of the evening, I can make it to '89. Plus, Traci Lords will announce the hunks of 1987 after the next commerical break!"

I can't wait for "I love the 90's: 1994" with in-depth analysis of Melrose Place by Patton Oswald and Aisha Tyler.

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Triumph is Robert Smigel, of TV Funhouse fame and formerly an SNL writer. {Edited to note: too slow.}

Michael Ian Black was so fucking funny in that VH-1 '80s retrospective that I forgave him for having three names and seriously considered writing him a crush letter and offering to cook him dinner. My wife consented to this plan, something she has only ever previously done for Dave Grohl among my hundreds of weird celebrity crushes, but I never got off my ass to do it. Also surprisingly funny on that show were Mo Rocca, who showed up with material and did better than he does on TDSwJS, and Hal Sparks.

Based solely on its star-launching power, Talk Soup will go down in history as the only thing of value E! has ever produced.

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Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.
Gigantic, the TMBG documentary, opens tomorrow in LA.

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Amazing. If I recall they did play it twice, and also played their minor follow up hit "If You Want Crying...". If I recall correctly it was an outdoor pavilion, with a roof and seating on all four sides of a open, square stage...Right??

Creepy.

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Close; he was the voice of the Pets.com sock puppet.

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That CD set should start with "Seether" from Veruca Salt. We'll have to ask Lisa Loeb if we can have "Stay" because she owns the masters. I'm certain we'll have an easier time getting EMF to let us use "Unbelievable." Jesus Jones will probably let us use "Right Here, Right Now" for free if we give them a hot meal and a place to crash for a few days.

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Thanks Ollie. I knew he went with some sock puppet or other, once beloved of the FB.

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Are you talking Triumph the Canadian band? No. That was Rik Emmett the best voice to come out of Canada EVER!!!!

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Absolutely. Chumbawamba falls into the hot meal category for "Tubthumping". Others include the Verve Pipe for "The Freshmen" and Ben Folds Five for "Brick".

We need a whole "post-Swingers" category for Squirrel Nut Zippers "Hell"; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy "You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three"; and Cherry Poppin' Daddies "Zoot Suit Riot".

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Celine will not be pleased. Expect a call from her agent.

Great band, but I'll still take Geddy any day...

("Fight the Good Fight!!!")

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you should come back to it- the Selector has done some good things in the last few years (not as good as its early stuff though)

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The Selector is still around? Can Bad Manners be far behind?

Ollie (Lip up, Fatty) Ramone

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Celine couldn't carry Rik Emmett's jock strap. She is SUCH the princess - she doesn't cough, sneeze or laugh for fear of harming her precious voice. Oh puhleeze. Good luck to her husband - I guess that means no moaning or shrieks of passion either. Yawn.

Geddy just doesn't do it for me, but most of my friends tell me I'm so wrong. I'll just have to live with that.

Brush with greatness...I talked to the Triumph limo driver after a concert and he gave me backstage passes and told me that there was a party at the Edgewater if I wanted to go. I should have gone. What a dope I was.
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