Tonight’s episode of “Aquarius” includes a scene in a bar where the jukebox is playing “Playmate” by Pearls Before Swine.

This has been a source of debate elsewhere but around the mid-70s, a Thames ITV drama (UK) featured a character perusing the cover of Leg End by Henry Cow.  More recently, amazed to see Robert Fripp on prime time TV greeting his wife (Toyah) from the jungle on I'm a Celebrity!  While on the same programme, I was willing Steve Davis (famous UK prog fan) to discuss his love of Magma, RIO etc. with the other celebs but he obviously held back on that one!

Today on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, there was a feature on New Orleans 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, and at the end they played a bit of an acoustic guitar instrumental version of Here Comes the Flood.  Anyone know who that might be?

^^ Somehow I rarely think to do just that.  Thanks for the reminder!     I just got done checking their site and it’s by Jon Durant.

colorofmoney91 wrote: I was somewhat surprised at the prog reference in The Venture Bros. I'm sure this has been posted approximately a million times before now.

Yet another "Carry On Wayward Son" reference.  This time in a commercial for Miller Lite.  (Not really unexpected because this ad's at least a couple months old and get shown about 1000 times a day on every freakin' channel.....)

I’d been meaning to bring up this one for a long time:

In Kermit Schafer’s bloopers collection “Bloopers, Bloopers, Bloopers” (Bell Publishing Co., New York, 1984) the following account of a blooper-that’s-not-actually-a-blooper can be found:

In Webster’s Dictionary the word “spoonerism” is defined as an unintentional interchange of syllables.  A well-known disc jockey was the victim of this tongue twister: “And now we have a new LP by Caravan—that pleasantly insane British group.  It is entitled ‘Cunning Stunts.’”

On one hand it was nice to see even this little bit of promotion for a favorite album that wasn’t terribly well-known, but still…

Really, Schafer?  Did he even bother to check to see if there actually was a group called Caravan that had an album by that actual title?  And even if he or any of his staff bothered to do the bare minimum of research, why would he think this was a spoonerism?  Did he honestly believe the actual title was…

Edited by AreYouHuman - April 16 2016 at 20:16

In a tutorial of the audio editing software Audacity I saw that the writer of the tutorial had nice taste:

On the last season of “Friends,” the episode “The One With Ross’s Grant”, Phoebe gives Rachel her black book of all the guys she’s dated, and a few pages in, Rachel asks: “Isn’t Jethro Tull a band?”  Phoebe smiles coyly and replies, “Oh, yes, they are.”

In this show Vinyl, a record company in the 70s were observing a band that was a completely overdone rendition of Gentle Giant