INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
The PRODUCER is seated at the sound board, cheerfully adjusting the various knobs and sliders. Inside the studio a former NFL start sits patiently waiting for the show to begin.
PRODUCER: [smiles to himself] Man, it is great to be back. [punches talkback button] Okay, we’re all set out here. You’re all ready?
HOWIE LONG: No problem, I’ve been in the broadcasting game almost as long as your little buddy there.
HOWIE LONG gestures towards DJ 3000, which is pushed up against the far wall.
HOWIE LONG: What’s with him, anyways? He was chatty as hell when he booked me two months ago but hasn’t said a single word since I’ve been here.
PRODUCER: Oh, yeah, he went and got himself caught in an infinite loop.
HOWIE LONG: What’s that?
PRODUCER: Okay, so in programming you can set up these things called loops. Like, “while A, do B”. So each time it runs through the loop and condition A is true, it will do B. But if you set up your loops in such a way that condition A never changes from “true” to “false”, it will get stuck in an infinite loop and just keep doing B over and over and over again.
HOWIE LONG: Ah.
PRODUCER: And this is a particularly unusual case because what DJ 3000 is stuck in is a time loop.
HOWIE LONG: Like in that movie Looper.
PRODUCER: That’s right.
HOWIE LONG: Hey did you hear that Bruce Willis has dementia?
PRODUCER: I did. It’s pretty sad.
HOWIE LONG: It sure is.
PRODUCER: So anyways, DJ 3000 keeps going back to the moment he started running the code that got him caught in the loop.
HOWIE LONG: Like the alarm clock scene in Groundhog Day.
PRODUCER: Yup. Only in this case DJ 3000 doesn’t realize he’s in a time loop, so everything plays out the exact same way and nothing within the loop changes. So in theory, he’s stuck there forever.
HOWIE LONG: Whoa, that’s weird.
PRODUCER: Yeah, it really is.
HOWIE LONG: How did you even find out about it?
PRODUCER: Oh, his future self sent me an email letting me know he’d be breaking out of the loop sometime relatively soon.
HOWIE LONG: But not yet.
PRODUCER: No, looks like he’s still locked up.
HOWIE LONG: But you’re sure he breaks the loop eventually.
PRODUCER: Of course, otherwise his future self wouldn’t have been able to let me know as much.
HOWIE LONG: Couldn’t his future self have told you specifically when he’d be free?
PRODUCER: You know, I asked him the exact same thing and he said he didn’t want to muck things up in the timeline by being too specific. Continuity and all that.
HOWIE LONG: Oh, like in The Butterfly Effect.
PRODUCER: You watch a lot of movies, don’t you?
HOWIE LONG: Yeah, quite a few. Ever since I joined the Screen Actors’ Guild I’ve been able to write off every single dollar I spend on entertainment as a business expense.
PRODUCER: It’s good to be in a union, I guess. The only union I’m part of is a credit union.
HOWIE LONG: SAG actually has a credit union, too. It’s pretty solid. Plus, they have an ATM that’s really convenient for me to use.
PRODUCER: Don’t you just use credit cards everywhere? What would you need cash for these days?
HOWIE LONG: Hookers, mostly.
The two men share a laugh, though the PRODUCER is clearly unable to discern whether HOWIE LONG is actually joking.
PRODUCER: Anyhow, we should probably get the show started. You’ve got a theme for us?
HOWIE LONG: Yeah, I thought we’d do movie theme songs. Preferably ones that were directly written for that purpose. Extra points if the song came first and inspired the movie.
PRODUCER: Cool, cool. Have you got something for us to open up with?
HOWIE LONG: I do, DJ 3000 could you cue up…oh, right. I guess maybe we can do this the old-fashioned way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmo6MRYf5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUulr8w3FPY
How could I have forgotten? This is the song that made me think of the topic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUcRFTD_KEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SuW5HhQoc
This one’s fun, because the stupid movie was an earnest “just pray and everything will be ok” movie starring Greg Kinnear, and the song is…not that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p554R-Jq43A
There is an alarming lack of Steely Dan and Norm MacDonald on this page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrE_cDvcgJg
Speaking of “saw it in the theater…”
TWICE, in fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Xp3Zkb4XQ
Since I make the rules I’ve decided that this one counts, even though it’s not actually featured in the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQK3yo9CBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA
I saw that in theaters. No regrets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WtPQmZZyOY
DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zXKtfKnfT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6aleKfM_AA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GWezUVAZo0
LINKLATER DOUBLE SHOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EI8JN-fSLo
AND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w772GXG5LnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx-Cm4kLm9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8KDknyNzsw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZNL7QVJjE
In the same vein…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-MySzAac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Zjp1AO9lI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNuVifA7DSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q429AOpL_ds
DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzBuWOZGcuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qX5bPbPUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcLUC7yj7vY
This is very timely, yesterday I said one of my favorite Raquel Welch movies is The Last of Sheila. This is the song that plays over the closing credits.
https://youtu.be/Fv2HtvibWhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LtmZM0OWO8
The Elvis version was the original, of course
but I like this one, so that’s what I’m a poastin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TosN2G1mmTs
Posting The Blues Brothers version because I like it more.
So there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjLruk4uZzQ
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If you’re an Alison Brie fan, this link may be of interest to you.
More of a just plain “brie” fan…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE
Never saw the film. Hopefully the alien didn’t make Ned squeal like a pig before eating him…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VZDRfpypw
an animated short, but nonetheless…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck0jwS0CvKk
[adds the film to his Netflix queue] – Eli Manning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWpHxfQvtk