INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
A pair of radio professionals are standing outside the recording booth sipping coffee. CONNOR, THE INTERN is talking into his cellphone while the PRODUCER stands next to him, angrily checking his watch.
PRODUCER: Goddamnit, where is he?
CONNOR: [hanging up] His agent said he pulled up outside of the studio twenty minutes ago.
PRODUCER: Damnit, it doesn’t take that long to park. I…wait…[looks inside the recording booth]…
PRODUCER: What the hell? How did he get in there?
Both the PRODUCER and CONNOR look around in bewilderment at how AMARI COOPER managed to get into the booth without either of them noticing.
PRODUCER: [into microphone] Amari, glad you could make it. Sorry I didn’t see you come in – we’re a little tight on time here, you ready to jump right in?
AMARI COOPER: [shrugs agreeably]
PRODUCER: Great, we’re live in three…two…one…
AMARI COOPER: …
PRODUCER: [realizes Cooper is not going to say anything] So…welcome to another edition of Request Line, folks. We’re lucky to enough to have Raiders standout receiver Amari Cooper as our guest deejay for the day, Amari, you want to say hello to all the folks listening out there?
AMARI COOPER: [waves hello]
PRODUCER: Amari is waving, folks, in case you couldn’t see that, which of course you can’t, because this is [looks imploringly at Cooper] a radio show. Anyhow, Amari, you have a reputation of working incredibly hard in the offseason, and I understand that this year you added another activity to your training regimen: reading.
AMARI COOPER: [nods]
PRODUCER: …so I understand you even started your own book club to encourage people to join you in your hobby. What are you reading this month?
COOPER: [smiles faintly, holds a copy of Stephen King’s “The Stand”]
PRODUCER: Um…you know we’re on the radio here, right?
COOPER: [raises eyebrow, nods]
PRODUCER: So people can’t understand what you’re trying to tell them unless you say it.
COOPER: …
PRODUCER: Out loud.
COOPER: …
PRODUCER: Into the microphone.
AMARI COOPER: [leans forward] Man, enough of this talkin’ shit. Let’s just play some music.
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This week’s topic: Literature! I’ll get us started with a perfect song for those Friday nights when you have no date and a two-liter bottle of Shasta. Post your requests in the comments and we’ll bundle them up for Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cb4Q0-nGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhe9tVARzCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZSvgVz_0F0
Like minds my friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNu_GJ_PSZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDieZ4dgQ9Q
While we are in the Dungeon: P.A. Dope Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE2VebMxMNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nitz50WxwOY
Shut up…it’s a kind of book. Sort of….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24IfD-0VUu4
I haven’t scrolled back yet. If this one’s been posted, I apologize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVLMS_Yhe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GLAKEjU4w
Metallica – One (S&M)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc7XrdFn_Ao
Radiohead – Exit Music (for a film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8051Hipbmmw
Metallica, rocking the story of Passover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWq3f01e2U
The Byrds- Turn, Turn, Turn
https://youtu.be/W4ga_M5Zdn4
Mumford & Sons is apparently allowed, so “Dust Bowl Dance, based on Grapes of Wrath:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z2yY5GhDto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJQY36ZRoKg
Redacted.
Inch, Stresser, about Batman & Superman sort of changing places:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUI4YBWKFs
And, keeping with the theme (and because I always loved the Album title “Cyber Chords & Sushi Stories, itself a reference to cyberpunk novels of the late 80s/early 90s), Plan B with “Cops Pin The Rap On Batman”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fXeCb0gS38
Easy now, we’ll have a separate Request Line for Superheroes sometime this summer.
I’d push my own mother* in front of a bus for fifteen minutes in a closet with Susannah Hoffs.
*Well, not MY mother. Yours, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzXSA9ezH7Y
…so she could organize the closet after the first two minutes?
a) I would understand completely
b) What would you do for the other 14 1/2 minutes?
Inspired by The Sandman, Tori Amos, Tear In Your Hand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QRwNaMhCuw
Y Kant Tori Read- The Big Picture
It is gloriously bad. Particularly the video.
https://youtu.be/fh4B0jjVeYU
It really is amazingly bad.
Fun story: while Tori was writing Little Earthquakes, she sent what eventually became the whole album to Neil Gaiman. He was so impressed she became the visual inspiration for the character that became Delirium.
In the pre-internet days, I bought a bootleg of the album, just because I’d heard rumors about how bad it was. I still have it. I think I’ve listened to it for a total of 15 minutes. Most of that was to let other people hear how bad it was.
Every day? Shit, that is one prolific author.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1d4r9awjKE
goddamnit, knew there was an Elvis Costello song I was forgetting
CANCEL MY ORDER ABOVE, I’LL TAKE A DOUBLE SHOT HERE INSTEAD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQK3yo9CBA
I could apparently go all day on this topic.
Iron Maiden, Revelations (inspired by the works of Aleister Crowley, most of this is taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft-7VSuCark
So, this song isn’t actually about the book, at all, but it counts!
Oh, and happy birthday, Shogun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fRfrBu2eQ0
Hey, some songs are more equal than others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COSIgB3_TtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KByxC7B9WH0
IT’S AN INSTRUMENTAL SO YOU CAN’T TELL ME IT’S NOT ABOUT THE BOOK AND PLUS I’LL USE ANY EXCUSE I CAN THINK OF TO HAVE ANOTHER SWEET SWEET TASTE OF THAT DOUBLE SHOT.
(also, I’ve always liked it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTs4cmiH2yg
The Low Anthem, To The Ghosts Who Write History Books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0I-jadx5U
I like this – this was nice.
Thanks. The Low Anthem is a damn fine band who gets almost no notice. Sort of like Great Lake Swimmers that way.
Mad Season, Black Book of Fear (only recorded after Layne Staley died, sadly):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXHxeuHpzlk
On a somewhat related note, our pain is self-chosen. Yeaaaaahhhh. All pain is self-chosen.
Based on Frankenstein, Abney Park, Twisted & Broken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WwnLIfDOQ
I feel like English should fall under this category.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY
Also Grammar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
“Word Crimes” sounds like it would be a song written about Emmitt Smith.
Maybe Weird Al’s best song, but your comment might be even better.
*Do* know a bit about this band. Surprised they don’t turn up here more often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjXr9SrzQE
Don’t know much about this band, but it fits the theme!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoZR5s6FXT0
Here’s a story from one of the greatest works of fiction ever written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYakTM7O1uM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmVwo2DxkGg
“AND YERTLE THE TURTLE–POSSIBLY THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF TURTLE-STACKING”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXWzbsnb638
Video not showing above, possibly due to Wiggum hogging the post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXWzbsnb638
Ya gots to end your post with the YouTube link in order for it to embed. Unlike Wiggam, who apparently ends his day by wearing his uniform to bed.
Ah, thanks. These new-fangled internets always confuse us olds.
The Boss and Tom Morello? Yeah, this is the best version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzRbeHyIomk
Now I feel like taking a whole shitload of acid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw
And… that’s different than usual?
PUT THIS ONE ON YEAH RIGHT’S TAB PLEASE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE_Wowa_Uaw
Inspired by East of Eden, plus the video features Injun-killin,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp-4VdUFwOg
Rikki you must have stolen from more good shit from Marc if you forgot this.
Phish- Also Sprach Zarathustra
https://youtu.be/z8RBItsYKRY
Shit, I forgot that was a book first. That should have made its way onto the Hi-Fi-Sci-Fi one but I’m not entirely sure it did.
The lyrics of this song really do the book justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwIPiw4_Ba8
Some of the best vocal work in their entire catalog.
Covering the general theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQinQvWTXk
NICE!
Who Wrote Holden Caufield? It was ME! Go ahead, prove me wrong, ya buncha phonies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnxlfe2M6l8
BARISTA WOULD YOU PLEASE THROW ANOTHER SHOT IN AND MAKE THIS A DOUBLE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s15pomraPuI
Didn’t realize the Killers covered Dire Straits, but it’s pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtmorUXAwiI
ALL RIGHT I’VE HAD MY COFFEE NOW IT’S TIME FOR A DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXLm5GgKIZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6IcljPV-k
This is either about a Camus book or Trump’s campaign promise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbLqOXmJ04
They Might Be Giants: I Should Be Allowed to Think
https://youtu.be/UryTypo2qeU?list=PL4YVraLfB03b-sTbrut8I8HUcYGsAgbTA
Hemingway’s best song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdlQyNe_9tE
I like to think this one is a reference to “The Sun Also Rises” – getting lit up on absinthe in Paris and picking up prostitutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Godg09Mo3HE
getting lit up on absinthe in Paris and picking up prostitutes.
“Or as I like to call it, Thursday.” – Johnny Manziel
Nice.
In keeping with Amari Cooper’s book choice for the month, the lyrics in this song heavily reference the Stephen King / Peter Straub book “The Talisman”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHPhZqlZ8wg
Belle and Sebastian: Wrapped up in Books
https://youtu.be/iBU-MxydbWQ
Goddess Emily:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uqH84BiZI
Maiden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-1iAsqmQI
UP THE IRONS!
A literary bunch these.
Double shot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zk4as9kzA
MAKE IT A FUCKING TRIPLE!
Also, I forgot Frank Herbert was such a dick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y3o4okKXMU
Buncha Tolkien nerds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HemKGDavw
Oh good angle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KByxC7B9WH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIZofPB8ZM
I’ve been called obtuse before.
excellent choice!
/by the time my low wattage brain thinks of anything, it shall be taken
Amari Cooper will be Las Vegas’ Larry Fitzgerald.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TE_Ys4iwM