Suburban Muse

So, we will absolutely get back to out Regularly Scheduled Schlock Content of reviewing old movies, but for now, we felt compelled to share a small portion of our holiday music collections with you. You are welcome and I'm sorry? Some is awesome, some is terrible, some is downright mediocre. Enjoy it. Or not, whatever, we're having a blast either way.  Happy Holidays, everyone! 

So we've done a bit of a departure (no worries, we will still honor the choice of The Vessel Of Podcast Destiny). AP has an...extensive...music collection and Boo has an...interesting...music collection, so we're sharing some of their seasonal favorites in our FIRST EVER MUSIC EPISODE. Enjoy our stupid, stupid words about Halloween music. LEARN about flexi-discs here: https://www.vinylme...

So at the end of Season 2 (July 2022) we created the "Vessel of Podcast Destiny" so that The Universe would pick our next movie for us. It picked "Freaks".  We recorded audio in October of 2022 and neither of us like what we said, how we said it, it was too deep and sad for us at the time, so we decided to put it on hold. Life, stuff, things, grad school, community upendings, a...

Season 2 FINALE, everyone! So far on this podcast with our stupid, stupid words, we have talked about: Beastiality (Howard the Duck) Sex with a statue (Mannequin) Efficient Use of Boobs (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) So it was really only a matter of time before Normalized Incest came up... So here is our take on THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS, which also features a beautifully garbled Night Ranger lyri...

Season 2, Episode 9 - ROBOCOP. Man, we forgot how violent this one was.  Thanks to Netflix for the LARGE assist on research by having this one included in their "Movies That Made Us" series because hoo-boy did it cause AP to go down a ratings rabbit hole. There was a fruity "Robot Cocktail", an unnecessary jab at "Law & Order" and Boo shares a story about her cons...

Season 2, Episode 8...Meatballs (1979) Y'all...don't watch this one. It's boring and the problematic stuff is REALLY, REALLY TERRIBLE.  There are multiple sequels...Bill Murray managed to have a career after this...and we failed to keep the early 80's from happening.  Summery mojito with our patio mint (that Boo managed to NOT KILL) and AP finds really random music. You know, p...

All right, friends. In a first, we review a new stage production of the pre-Broadway run of "Karate Kid: the Musical" that premiered here in St. Louis in the year of our Lord Twenty-Twenty-Two. AP & Boo saw it on opening night, then AP's son (aka "The Boy" or "Abraham Lincoln") saw it a few days later with his grandma. So you get stupid, stupid words from THR...

All right, friends. We went on a little unintentional hiatus.  - End of the school year (and we still have 3 kids) - Damned if everyone didn't get covid EXCEPT for Boo... - AP's actual job cranked up the stress level - Boo is changing schools, classrooms, her overall outlook - We needed time to watch THREE John Hughes movies The unofficial "trilogy" is: 16 Candles - 1984 Breakf...

Yeah, this went to some DARK places, but the "Cherry Semetary" cocktail that AP mixed sure did help make it better. We talk about the original 1989 film, probably too much about the 1992 sequel (no, don't bother) and introduce one of AP's music specialties...COVER to COVER, where we present some manner of original song AND a kick-ass cover or two of it.  In this case, the origi...

Yeah, a lot of these actors are dead, so RIP and pour one out for them.  We toasted these departed souls with the themed beverages of "the 1986 College Experience", the contents of which were a complete surprise to Boo...but came authentically presented by AP pulling it out of a plastic bag...just like sneaking it into your dorm room. Since this movie culminates with graduation, it seeme...

If you love Mel Brooks, go for it! If you are an undecided Mel Brooks watcher...maybe skip this one. For 1993's "Robin Hood: Men In Tights" episode, Boo asked for (and got!) her male co-host/love of her life to BECOME a man in tights.  Requests for a picture were politely declined.  While wearing tights, AP created a custom "Men In Tights" cocktail with gin, fresh cranberr...

We looked for "Scrooged"...found this...and now it's a staple in our family. A throwback to the 1970's variety shows, this is a thing that, like, inexplicably has a LOT of recognizable people in it.  It's super fun, a silly indulgence, and talking about it was a GREAT way to kill time waiting for Santa Claus to get his fat ass down the chimney on Christmas Eve. This is a r...

SEASON TWO y'all! Episode 1 SPOILER ALERT: It does not hold up but we sure did still show it to our kids...and we even got some kid commentary! Recipe to the Jefferson Airplane cocktail (because NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US) - https://www.easy-cocktail-recipes.net/spirits/vodka/jefferson-airplane/#.YaVw-WDMLIU Boo swears to Hades that the Vanna White *inspiration* movie is real: https://www.i...

Watch this cinematic masterpiece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkVcd7SbTw Season 1 Finale! We explore the cinematic and musical excellence of TIM CURRY in his 1986 post-Rocky-Horror career, which includes THREE rock albums and the underappreciated role of the Grand Wizard (meOW!) in the made-for-tv movie across the pond "The Worst Witch" based on the novels of the same name. Als...

Two-part double-header (double-feature?) season finale! Part 1 is one of Boo's FAVORITE movies...ELVIRA, Mistress of the Dark!!! Here are some phrases from this episode: - casserole beast - efficient use of boobs - wig handler - Where's the Jager?...all of it. - fired from cocktail making - horrified, amused, and a little pissed - classic movie vs. cult classic movie The horrible cocktai...

SO MUCH HAPPENING HERE! 1) AP & Boo recorded their parts over Zoom due to quarantine (wash your hands, wear your mask, get the vaccine if you can...) 2) First ADULT guest stars! Boo's sister (Sibling) and her wife (OG) join us as this movie was ON REPEAT in their house growing up in the 90's. 3) SNEAK PREVIEW at the end of what comes next for our season finale(s) I just don't un...

We're at the point of the season/pandemic/podcast creation that we're adding "themed cocktails" to our recording sessions, folks. AP didn't know this was happening and it was important to get his initial reactions to Boo's cocktail offering, so the audio at the very beginning is mildly horrid (apologies.) It improves, hilarity ensues, we listen to cheesy synthesizer m...

The 1980 CLASSIC movie "Flash Gordon" is a favorite of both AP *and* Boo, mostly because of the soundtrack by the iconic rock band QUEEN.  We'll take a look at the cast, how the movie imagery was influenced by "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and we'll make AP make quick decisions about a fantasy casting remake with director George Lucas, who wanted to make the movie i...

Truly one of AP's formative movies, he could talk about this one for HOURS...and Boo had never seen it until now. Weirdly one of the more...dare I say...INTELLECTUAL podcasts we've recorded, you get a lot of philosophy of soundtracks as a genre and a bonus game of "Single or Married?" for the cast. We truly did not expect to do this deep of a dive into the marital (or *not* mar...

As promised at the end of our Beetlejuice podcast, here is our take on 1986's Marvel offering "Howard the Duck". Here's a link to read about the totally rad artist from our intro music - her name is Kyleen King and you should buy everything she's ever done: https://soundbetter.com/profiles/157992-kyleen-king As you can tell, AP is waaaaaay more enthusiastic about this movi...

Not really another episode, not really quality content, we're not really sure what this is, but we recorded our conversation while watching "Beetlejuice" in preparation for Episode 3.  You'll hear the moment AP decrees that our next movie is "Howard the Duck" for reasons that nobody really understands. 

You lucky, luck people get a TWO-FER this time! First, the regular podcast where you might hear the moment AP falls out of love with Boo when she confesses that she hasn't seen the movie "Singles"...and THEN the bonus material/episode/whatever that is our commentary as we watched the movie in preparation for this. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!

Join our deep dive into "Blazing Saddles"...and how Mel Brooks got us to laugh at offensive stuff and be ok with it.  A brief nod to the ground-breaking film "The Producers" sets the stage for laughing at racism as a ridiculous ideal (the full article is here: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/26/605297774/mel-brooks-says-its-his-job-to-make-terrible-things-entertaining)  If we get b...

In our very first podcast episode, we (AP & Boo) talk about the 1985 classic film "The Goonies". Like so many films from this era, there are problematic stereotypes, interesting marketing tie-ins, and sometimes very abrupt endings. The biggest question for this movie before modern families show it to their kids this: Does it hold up? Tune in to find out! Featured episode music by Kyl...