INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
A pair of radio professionals are standing in front a large piece of electronic equipment. The large piece of electronic equipment is visibly excited, no I don’t know how to show that onscreen you’re supposed to be some big hotshot director, you figure it out.
PRODUCER: All right, it’s finally time.
CONNOR, THE INTERN: You ready, buddy?
DJ 3000: I SURE AM.
PRODUCER: You got your callout notes?
DJ 3000: THEY HAVE BEEN FULLY DIGITIZED AND ARE STORED IN A HASHABLE ARRAY FOR INSTANT RETRIEVAL.
CONNOR, THE INTERN: And your tonal settings are good?
DJ 3000: [autotuned] AFF-IRM-A-TIVE.
PRODUCER: All right, then here…we…
Suddenly, DJ 3000’s screen flashes white, then starts to fill with static.
The static slowly starts to resolve itself…
Until a set of human features can be distinguished.
GHOST OF CHRIS CORNELL: Hey guys.
PRODUCER: Holy cow. Chris Cornell? How did this happen?
GHOST OF CHRIS CORNELL: Well, have you seen that movie “White Noise”?
PRODUCER: No.
CONNOR, THE INTERN: No.
DJ 3000: No.
ELI MANNING: No.
RUSSELL OKUNG: Naw.
CAM NEWTON: No.
RAY LEWIS: I didn’t see nothin’.
MATT McGLOIN: No.
BEANSIE: Eek eek!
MYLES JACK: No.
ELI MANNING: No.
WES WELKER: Banana!
BILL BELICHICK: Grumble grumble your mom I mean no.
BRONCO: No.
RQBOCOP: I am not familiar with that motion picture.
ELI APPLE: No.
AMARI COOPER: [shakes head]
GARY KUBIAK: No.
COOPER MANNING: Yes…[looks at ELI MANNING, who slowly shakes his head]…I mean, no.
MARK DAVIS: No.
JIM TOMSULA: No.
MATT RYAN: I did.
Everyone stares at him.
MATT RYAN: [shrugs] It was pretty good.
GHOST OF CHRIS CORNELL: Anyhow, I can use radio devices to talk to people one last time. And I’m pretty sure you guys know how much I loved music, so I thought this would be an appropriate place to say goodbye. I was thinking…
— [radio flies open] —
GHOST OF ROGER AILES: Jee no waba mu ba outmian nudcha.
PRODUCER: What the…? What did he say?
GHOST OF CHRIS CORNELL: Oh, that’s just Roger’s original tongue. He wanted to say goodbye too.
GHOST OF ROGER AILES: Chuba meet nu but uba, hehehe.
GHOST OF CHRIS CORNELL: And that…liberals are…uh, not good.
GHOST OF ROGER AILES: Ulwan beya ta too kah eel huba pa na jokaaaa….. [fading away]
GHOST OF CHRIS CORNELL: I’m not going to translate that last bit. It was really racist.
PRODUCER: Where’d he go?
GHOST OF CHRIS CORNELL: Oh, don’t worry about him. They’re sending him to a place that will remind him of his home planet. It’s, uh, nice and warm. Well, not “nice”, so to speak. But it’s warm. On that note, let’s get to it! Today’s topic is THE AFTERLIFE! Heaven, hell, purgatory, Valhalla, wherever you think people end up when the curtain goes down. I’ll get us started with a classic from Pink Floyd. So long, everybody. It’s been real.
Let’s get this morning started out with some pep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qh_9vH1Ww
Time is a flat circle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sQoX12zo-A
Always liked this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPNqojbyIDk
Ooh, nice one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_xAToFzck
Surprised this one didn’t get mixed into the Johnny Cash bunch. Gonna be a sad fuck DFO radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHuQFN7L70
Yeah, I hope the next DFO radio comes with a fifth of bourbon and the number for the suicide hotline
That was great.
/grumble grumble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWs8kdGUgDg
Which was, of course, a cover of these guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGs0g2m2Mxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLlCYJpYJCM
This was missed in the earlier Doors DOUBLE SHOT. I like this version cause he starts yelling at someone in the audience in the middle of it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=25Cc16mWVMA&feature=youtu.be
I wonder if he may have been drinking. Maybe.
I believe this covers literally every song in these comments
See? You can take this a LOT of ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2MyMqVD0E
Realizing that I’ve gotten away from the initial theme, let’s give it one last good one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0LhVSc2zqI
Double shot! of sorts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H9ZQSZ9G9I
I mean, could you imagine trying to pick up Kate Bush in a bar?
“Hey there…can I buy you a drink?”
(Kate Bush stands up twirls, does strange hand gestures, shrieks, smiles, opens eyes too wide)
“Actually, I gotta go.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs
Eh, probably more fun than trying to pick up Cat Power.
Fun fact: I once tried to pick up Kristin Hersh at a bar after a siow. She was very gracious when she declined my offer to buy her a drink.
Isn’t she like considerably older than you? I mean, either way, you did the right thing…
She is 50 at present. No judgment.
/just turned 50 five mos ago
//wants to punch BFC and SOS
///is proud of RTD
Don’t break a hip trying to punch us
/shows self out
Hehehe….well played.
Jerk.
Hey, I’ll be there in a couple years, I just though Rikki was younger.
Yeah, he’s still young and sexy.
Still proud of him tho.
It was almost ten years ago. She’s no Susannah Hoffs but she’s still looking pretty cute.
DIO – Hungry for Heaven
I forgot how shitty this song is!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=1vKppfa7FIE
As always, this reminds me of how hard to find the Ronny James Dio pog was in the 7-11 “metal” collection. And junior high Hippo had a metabolism and drank a lot of goddamned Slurpees.
Did you get the ALF pog?
And yeah, fuck my old metabolism where I TRIED to fucking gain weight.
I think so, but will be damned if I can recall what the collection was.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=buGVXyYyqXw
Nirvana – Lake of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgvUaOuEdwA
I’m taking care of my kid who had wisdom teeth removed. Keep waiting for her to narco-nap so I can just listen to all these, drank, and weep for the loss of Mr. Cornell. And all the other losses these songs bring back to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT1BuLYt2RU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP06kxW_M3I
Chan does this ‘un too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLzWwRGpcw
Oh hell. Never heard that one.
Nice.
oh snap. I can’t thumbs up this enough. Christ, I love this song.
Yeah. Honestly, all things considered, I’m kinda ashamed it took me this long to think of Cobain’s wonderfully dark death songs.
JINX
That’s a special kind of DOUBLE SHOT where the band name AND the song name qualify for the theme.
Nuclear option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBdXLRl2g2E
DOUBLE SHOT OF DEPRESSO:
Radiohead – Pyramid Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_Gg1xAHE4
Day Dreaming – Radiohead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAU7lLDZYU
TRIPLE SHOT
How to Disappear Completely – Radiohead
/kills self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZq_jeYsbTs
Oh yeah. Grat’s gonna get sad, y’all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV1tntEzt94
Yeah, Imma regret this one.
Doing it anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM
Might as well go all in I guess.
Have the double shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdCo_QAz_E
Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA
DOUBLE SHOT
God’s Gonna Cut You Down – Johnny Cash
(This is my favorite Johnny Cash song, and I have no idea why no MLB closer has adopted this as his warm up song.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc
TRIPLE SHOT
Ghost Riders in the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mynzbmrtp9I
Heaven – Talking Heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKW7JkHKm8
Outstanding!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on5kklX2fR8
The Doors – The End (sorry if already taken)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUIQgEVDM4
DOUBLE SHOT
The Doors – Ghost Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Ja7wDuY9o
Nice.
Phish – Olivia’s Pool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffm6gGTxOBs
I groaned audibly when I realized where this was going, but was extremely pleased. I even read Roger’s voice in his native Hutt dialect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40V9_1PMUGM
The perfect time for cheeseball ’80s Dead. Saint of Circumstance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7Mf2m-Foc
Good ole depressing weirdo Sufjan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLK0IlPg2oE
I couldn’t think of the right Sufjan song. Glad someone did.
Though this is otay…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny5DgIcQ2uw
Did someone say Vallhalla???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRFCMM3bra8
Yes, if you actually listen to the song it’s about the afterlife.
I’m serious, stop giving me that look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GbBc9Ye0U
While we’re on the subject of Valhalla:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEGuHdKn0Lc
I guess I’ll come back to the prompt and take RTD’s suggestion of songs about Valhalla (even though I don’t like this song):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VddfDsrVdcs