For our latest episode, we have compiled a playlist of musicians who have had significant roles in television or movies. Head over to Apple Music to check out the playlist. Songs included on the playlist are:
AC/DC
John Mellencamp
Europe
Jerry Lee Lewis
Steam
Boys II Men
Accept
The Doors
Jon Bon Jovi
Roy Rogers
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For our latest episode, we have compiled a playlist of musicians who have had significant roles in television or movies. Head over to Apple Music to check out the playlist. Songs included on the playlist are:
Run DMC
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash
Neil Young
Carole King
Beastie Boys
Missy Elliot
Joni Mitchell
Buddy Holly
Johnny Flynn
Pixies
The Smiths
Parliament Funkadelic
The Velvet Underground
Elliott Smith
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For our latest episode, we have compiled a playlist of musicians who have had significant roles in television or movies. Head over to Apple Music to check out the playlist. Songs included on the playlist are:
In The Air Tonight – Phil Collins
When Doves Cry – Prince and the Revolution
King of the Road – Dean Martin
Hung Up – Madonna
Sacrifice – Motorhead
My Love – Justin Timberlake and T.I.
The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don’t Want To Get Over You) – Waylon Jennings
She’s Like The Wind – Patrick Swayze
Black Sunshine (Featuring Iggy Pop) – White Zombie
Redbone – Childish Gambino
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For our latest episode, Tim Jousma talks about his 10 favorite songs from 1966. Head over to Apple Music to check out the playlist. Songs included on the playlist are:
I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown and the Famous Flames
Wild Thing – The Troggs
Wouldn’t It Be Nice – The Beach Boys
Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra
Daydream – The Lovin’ Spoonful
Hold On, I’m Comin’ – Sam & Dave
Here, There and Everywhere – The Beatles
You Can’t Hurry Love – The Supremes
Last Train to Clarksville – The Monkees
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 – Bob Dylan
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For our latest episode, we compiled a playlist with a theme of Revolution. Head on over to Apple Music to check out that playlist for yourself. Included on this week’s playlist is:
Revolution – The Beatles
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution – Tracy Chapman
We’re Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister
War Pigs – Black Sabbath
Plastic People – Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
Freedom – Richie Havens
The Internationale – Billy Bragg
Street Fighting Man – The Rolling Stones
Ukranian National Anthem
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For our latest episode, we’re talking about women that have inspired us. On top of that, we have created a playlist on Apple Music of some of our favorite female musicians. Included on the playlist this week are:
Respect – Aretha Franklin
Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
For Free – Joni Mitchell
White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
Jolene – Dolly Parton
I Saved The World Today – Eurythmics
I’m Every Woman – Chaka Khan
The World is Not Enough – Garbage
Work It – Missy Elliot
Fallin’ – Alicia Keys
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The Professor and I had a fun chat with our mutual friend Wren the Blissful about sex work. In preparation for this episode, the Professor and I put together a playlist of songs that reminded us of work. Not sex work specifically, but work in general. Like any job however, we would like to think sex workers could relate to some of these songs because whether you like it or not, sex work is work. The songs included in the playlist, which you can find on Apple Music, include:
In My Time of Dying – Led Zeppelin
Sixteen Tons – Tennessee Ernie Ford
Workin’ for a Livin’ – Huey Lewis and the News
One Piece at a Time – Johnny Cash
Glad to See You Go – The Ramones
Take This Job And Shove It – Johnny Paycheck
Clerks – Love Among Freaks
9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
Money For Nothing – Dire Straits
John Henry – Doc Watson
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Hump Day with Tim and the Professor Playlist – Discussion about Drugs and Society – Episode 8
Every podcast needs a gimmick, and Hump Day with Tim and the Professor has found theirs. Presenting the first Hump Day with Tim and the Professor Playlist. For each episode going forward, barring life circumstances, we will be creating a 10-song playlist of music that inspires us for that particular recording. Check out the playlist on YouTube on this particular page, or if you have Apple Music, you can check out the playlist here. The songs for this week’s playlist are:
We Found Love (featuring Calvin Harris) – Rhianna
Because I Got High – Afroman
Got to Get You Into My Life – The Beatles
Roll Me Up – Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristoferson
Mary Jane – Rick James
A Bag of Weed (From “Family Guy”) – Family Guy
Hits From the Bong – Cypress Hill
Jen Is Bringing The Drugs – Margot and The Nuclear So and So’s
Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out of Hand – Waylon Jennings
Superman: The Movie is a motion picture that was released in 1978. Despite there being attempts at making comic book movies in the past, whether it be low budget movie serials or comedic films like Batman: The Movie from 1966, this was the first attempt at making a serious big budget motion picture that appealed to the masses. The choices made by the cast and crew of Superman: The Movie not only ensured that the movie itself would be entertaining for fans, it helped shaped the character of Superman and the world he inhabited in comics as a whole.
The first lasting change starts with the opening location in the movie, Krypton. Before the movie, Krypton had routinely been portrayed as a typical 50’s sci-fi wonderland, similar to settings you would see in works like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. Richard Donner decided to take a different tact. Working with production designer John Barry, they envisioned Krypton as a cold, alien planet covered in crystals. This allowed the filmmakers to give the film a more modern look.
The comics quickly took cues from the movie. After the landmark comic event Crisis On Infinite Earths, an event series intended to streamline the DC universe continuity, DC Comics commissioned noted comic creator John Byrne to reimagine the origins of Superman in his limited series Man Of Steel. The purpose of Man Of Steel was to essentially start over with the character. Mr. Byrne, taking cues from Superman: The Movie, took Krypton from the 50’s sci-fi wonderland it had been for over 50 plus years into an alien landscape that resembled the locations established in the movies. There were some changes, to be fair. Mr. Byrne presented Krypton as more of a desert planet, but the design of the buildings on Krypton closely resembled the world of Krypton in the films.
The next big change had to do with Lois Lane. While she was never the typical damsel in distress, during the height of the Comic Code Authority of the 50’s and 60’s, Lois’s character became more focused on getting a man, not on being the best reporter at The Daily Planet. In fact, while she did have a comic book of her own during this era, Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane, that book typically featured her being boy crazy of some sort.
Enter Margot Kidder. Margot took Lois Lane from a two-dimensional caricature into a fully fleshed out character. In the movie, Lois Lane is a tough, no nonsense woman who is good at her job and has no qualms letting you know about that. Sure, she loves Superman in the movie, yet her worth as a character is not defined by that love. She becomes the adult Wendy to Superman’s Peter Pan.
How did that affect Lois in the comics? When John Byrne created Man Of Steel, his version of Lois Lane was influenced by the movie. She wasn’t portrayed as boy crazy anymore. The layers that Margot Kidder added to Lois Lane translated well to the comics. By giving Lois realistic motivations as a character, we the readers were able to connect with her in ways we simply couldn’t before. After the movie, Lois in the comics simply became more relatable because she was no longer a caricature.
Another character that benefited by changes in the movie was Lex Luthor, greatest criminal mind of our time. In the comics, it was established that Lex and a young Clark Kent grew up together in Smallville. Thanks to a science experiment that went bad, Lex lost his hair, which caused him to seek vengeance on Superman. What greater motivation does a super villain need for world domination than male pattern baldness?
The movie took a different path. Instead of presenting Lex as an evil scientist, Richard Donner took cues from the James Bond franchise and turned Lex into an evil capitalist with no moral compass. (Interestingly, the final script was written by Tom Mankiewicz, who wrote a number of early Bond films.) In the film, he desires land and will go to any length to get what he wants. For an audience in the 70’s, this was much more relatable than a mad scientist. A person could switch on the news and watch plenty of real-world Lex Luthor’s walking among them.
The comics took note. Starting with John Byrne’s Man Of Steel, Lex Luthor was an evil industrialist that was head of LexCo. He used his resources as an industrialist to achieve his goals. By updating the character of Lex Luthor, making him resemble the character as portrayed in the movie, the comics took an outdated trope, the evil scientist, and updated the character into someone the average reader would think is real.
Superman: The Movie is a landmark film. Similar to how the creation of Superman in the comics launched the superhero craze, the movie helped open the eyes of Hollywood as to what comic book stories can offer audiences. No longer are comic book characters marketed specifically to children. The movie, made 50 or so years after the creation of the comic, understood that generations of people grew up with these characters. By adapting them for modern times, by giving the characters more to do than the standard two-dimensional tropes you would come to expect from these stories, the movie opened the door for comic book creators to offer more depth to the world of Superman for which we the readers continue to benefit.