WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from December 24, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:01pm pgalub: The sun isn't yellow it's chicken!
	6:03pm yippie: You keep right on a-changin’
	6:03pm Spikey BXL: Cleanup, aisle 5, biggot spill
	6:04pm Famous Mortimer: The Apartment is a good holiday-adjacent movie
	6:05pm chresti: Brainiac
	6:06pm Chris J: I've been liking "Hogfather" the past few years.
	6:06pm Adi From Sheffield: Holiday film : The Great Escape / The Italian Job...I always seem to catch them at Christmas. I like them both 😁
	6:07pm chresti: There's a movie- Dylan's Trash
	6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: I watch They Call Me Trinity each year. The local movie theater played it for us kids when we were little.
	6:10pm Santa Deacon Sieve: Apocalypse Now! has been my favorite movie to watch on Christmas Day. Makes me settled on the way the world actually is, no sugar coated sappy holidays movies for meme.
	6:17pm Ben in Newark: Hi Jim! It was a holiday swap meet
	6:23pm ?: Female trouble is a christmas movie
	6:23pm Mr Laura T Esq.: Female trouble - a story about not getting your cha-cha heels.
	6:24pm Mr Laura T Esq.: ↳ @6:23 holy moly, jinx!
	6:24pm common: that book is a good-un
	6:27pm Marie in Chicago: I was tearing up just listening to that
	6:28pm mariano: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @6:06 Hmm... there are some obvious choices for me like Female Trouble (the cha-cha heels scene) and Trading Places.
	6:28pm mariano: ↳ Mr Laura T Esq. @6:23 Kinda jinx I guess, Mr Lara T!
	6:28pm Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from Tannersville JtP and all. i'll say Die Hard...right? Hi FOX!!
	6:28pm C: Um, shrek my balls mini Xmas - chef kiss
	6:29pm Ben in Newark: ↳ Mr Laura T Esq. @6:23 Would have been a whole different life trajectory if she'd gotten those cha-cha heels
	6:29pm mariano: ↳ Ben in Newark @6:29 That one poor fella wouldn't have died for art.
	6:30pm newton: ↳ Ben in Newark @6:29 would have been a good life choice for her parents too
	6:30pm morphe': Female Trouble free = no adverts archive.org...
	6:30pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ C @6:28 lol
	6:31pm Yes: Love emmet otter and bbq
	6:31pm Kevlicki: "we dont brush our teeth cos our toothaches can help us stay mean.... River Bottom Nightmare band!"
	6:31pm dale: doesn't emmett otter have a paul williams score?
	6:31pm Mr Laura T Esq.: day of the beast! so good
	6:32pm Erik in VT: “The Great Rupert” (a squirrel 🐿️) from 1950 = featuring Jimmy Durante & many other “charming” performers. It’s overall a very sweet & charming classic holiday motif movie.
	6:33pm Marie in Chicago: Speaking of Spain, I think I'm gonna watch a Pedro Almodovar movie later
	6:34pm Listener Bop Monroe: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down yes.
	6:34pm newton: The man who came to dinner is a christmas movie too
	6:35pm Mr Laura T Esq.: ↳ Marie in Chicago @6:33 women on the verge ...etc. has the most baby-faced antonio banderas
	6:35pm dale: sometimes i catch naked city and what blows my mind about nyc in the 60s is how little traffic there seemed to be.
	6:36pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Mr Laura T Esq. @6:35 hm, that sounds appealing. I might have seen that a long time ago... I'll see what they have on Criterion.
	6:36pm Mr Laura T Esq.: ↳ Mr Laura T Esq. @6:31 had to look it up but Álex de la Iglesia, the director of day of the beast also has an amazing new years eve move - my big night. it's really really funny and fun
	6:36pm Daybreak!: Never used a self cleaning oven feature on Christmas Eve!!! . We use the spray cleaner and let it sit for two hours because we're gonna be using the oven tomorrow and it was quite dirty. . We followed the instructions to clean it all out repeatedly with warm water and various rags. Then we thought: Let's run the self cleaning oven feature. . Our house has been filled with very toxic air according to the very nice air filter I bought when New Jersey's skies turned orange. . Fortunately by cracking various windows, using sheets to segregate the rest of the house , we are bringing things under control. . I'm about to jump in the shower and bring you all with me. The family is now in the basement watching a holiday movie
	6:37pm Kevlicki: Im going to finish watching Space Odyssey 2001 tonight.
	6:37pm Daybreak!: Dear Santa a.k.a. Dear Satan!
	6:37pm tonyb: “Come up to my room in an hour..and bring some rye bread” Durante in Man Who Came to Dinner.
	6:38pm Kevlicki: I got to the party late but I presume someone said Gremlins by now
	6:39pm DaveMiß: PeeWee’s Christmas is not to be missed! Grace Jones!
	6:39pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Daybreak! @6:36 On one hand: Yikes! On the other hand: You've got the start of a plot for a good Christmas movie.
	6:40pm Listener Bop Monroe: Peewee is a true Subgenius. praise 'bob'!
	6:40pm newton: ↳ Daybreak! @6:36 that self cleaning oven feature turns the oven into a self immolating incinerator!
	6:41pm mariano: ↳ dale @6:35 I think there were fewer cars overall and per capita. There was some law about not being able to park cars on the street overnight which changed in the 60s or 70s iirc which helped a lot. That's why kids were able to play stickball in the streets back in the day, cars didn't roll by as frequently.
	6:42pm Marie in Chicago: Jim's husband, Alan
	6:43pm Listener Bop Monroe: radio nephroscopy?
	6:43pm DjLorraine: Which type of k stone?
	6:43pm newton: ten centimeters is four inches
	6:44pm DjLorraine: Can ultra sound help?
	6:44pm newton: I had one 8 mm, at least they gave me morphine
	6:44pm Listener Bop Monroe: steak and kidney stone pie yum
	6:44pm drew: The x-mas of kidney stone passed.
	6:45pm Marie in Chicago: too bad you couldn't hook up a tracker/mini camera to Alan's kidney stone--a "Fantastic Voyage" of sorts
	6:45pm Listener Bop Monroe: is your name not Tuttle? no it's Buttle. oh sorry!
	6:45pm C: who has the cranberry log ?
	6:46pm DjLorraine: I just had sabzi with kidneys beans.
	6:46pm Listener Bop Monroe: "Central Services, we do the work, you do the pleasure!™"
	6:46pm Mr Laura T Esq.: 'Rare Exports' I think is the best recent Christmas movie.
	6:48pm Marie in Chicago: The Monte Christo movie sounds great
	6:52pm mariano: ↳ Listener Bop Monroe @6:45 I said Trading Places! Also, of course, Brazil, slipped my mind.
	6:52pm ultradamno: Morvern Callar and The Children are two of my favorite holiday movies
	6:52pm mariano: Micah! I bet there's some great Xmas music from cults.
	6:52pm common: ↳ ultradamno @6:52 the children! so good!
	6:53pm DaveMiß: ↳ mariano @6:52 That’s why i called!
	6:53pm DjLorraine: I'm looking forward to viewing The Last Showgirl
	6:53pm DaveMiß: Xmas monkey pox for everyone!
	6:55pm ultradamno: Oh, Vengeance Is Mine. Great movie!
	6:57pm Listener Bop Monroe: The Mafu Cage (also released as My Sister, My Love, Deviation and Don't Ring the Doorbell)
	6:58pm Listener Bop Monroe: this was fun JtP and all. B safe. Ho Ho Ho !
	6:58pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ DjLorraine @6:53 I want to see that! Love Pamela. HI!
	6:58pm dale: watch.plex.tv...
	6:58pm Daybreak!: Thank you so much for the show Jim on this weird Christmas Eve! Thank you so so much to Ken from Hyde Park for movie idea, or at least their short story idea to start a more approachable story format!
	6:59pm Daybreak!: I'm also gonna try to watch Bill Murray's Scrooged before midnight! We shall see!!!

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from December 24, 2024

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December 24, 2024: 'Los Frikis', 'The Day of the Fight', 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'A Complete Unknown', 'September 5', 'Nickel Boys', 'Sonic 3', Micah's Pick: 'The Mafu Cage'

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Artist	Track	Comments	Approx. start time
Loudon Wainwright III	Talking New Bob Dylan		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'A Complete Unknown'	Directed by James Mangold Screenplay by James Mangold Jay Cocks Based on Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald Produced by Fred Berger James Mangold Alex Heineman Bob Bookman Peter Jaysen Alan Gasmer Jeff Rosen Timothée Chalamet[1] Starring Timothée Chalamet Edward Norton Elle Fanning Monica Barbaro Boyd Holbrook Dan Fogler Norbert Leo Butz Scoot McNairy	0:05:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Los Frikis'	Directed by Tyler Nilson Michael Schwartz Screenplay by Tyler Nilson Michael Schwartz Produced by Phil Lord Christopher Miller Michael Schwartz Tyler Nilson Starring Héctor Medina Eros de la Puente Adria Arjona	0:40:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'The Count of Monte Cristo'	French Le Comte de Monte-Cristo Directed by Matthieu Delaporte Alexandre de La Patellière Screenplay by Matthieu Delaporte Alexandre de La Patellière Based on The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Produced by Dimitri Rassam Starring Pierre Niney Bastien Bouillon Anaïs Demoustier Anamaria Vartolomei Laurent Lafitte	0:47:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'September 5'	Directed by Tim Fehlbaum Written by Moritz Binder Tim Fehlbaum Alex David Produced by Philipp Trauer Thomas Wöbke Tim Fehlbaum Sean Penn John Ira Palmer John Wildermuth Starring Peter Sarsgaard John Magaro Ben Chaplin Leonie Benesch	0:48:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'The Room Next Door'	Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Written by Pedro Almodóvar Based on What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez Produced by Agustín Almodóvar Esther García Starring Tilda Swinton Julianne Moore John Turturro Alessandro Nivola	0:50:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet and Micah discuss	'The Mafu Cage'	Directed by Karen Arthur Written by Don Chastain Based on Toi et Les Nuages by Eric Westphal Produced by Diana Young Starring Carol Kane Lee Grant	0:52:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:01pm pgalub: The sun isn't yellow it's chicken!
	6:03pm yippie: You keep right on a-changin’
	6:03pm Spikey BXL: Cleanup, aisle 5, biggot spill
	6:04pm Famous Mortimer: The Apartment is a good holiday-adjacent movie
	6:05pm chresti: Brainiac
	6:06pm Chris J: I've been liking "Hogfather" the past few years.
	6:06pm Adi From Sheffield: Holiday film : The Great Escape / The Italian Job...I always seem to catch them at Christmas. I like them both 😁
	6:07pm chresti: There's a movie- Dylan's Trash
	6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: I watch They Call Me Trinity each year. The local movie theater played it for us kids when we were little.
	6:10pm Santa Deacon Sieve: Apocalypse Now! has been my favorite movie to watch on Christmas Day. Makes me settled on the way the world actually is, no sugar coated sappy holidays movies for meme.
	6:17pm Ben in Newark: Hi Jim! It was a holiday swap meet
	6:23pm ?: Female trouble is a christmas movie
	6:23pm Mr Laura T Esq.: Female trouble - a story about not getting your cha-cha heels.
	6:24pm Mr Laura T Esq.: ↳ @6:23 holy moly, jinx!
	6:24pm common: that book is a good-un
	6:27pm Marie in Chicago: I was tearing up just listening to that
	6:28pm mariano: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @6:06 Hmm... there are some obvious choices for me like Female Trouble (the cha-cha heels scene) and Trading Places.
	6:28pm mariano: ↳ Mr Laura T Esq. @6:23 Kinda jinx I guess, Mr Lara T!
	6:28pm Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from Tannersville JtP and all. i'll say Die Hard...right? Hi FOX!!
	6:28pm C: Um, shrek my balls mini Xmas - chef kiss
	6:29pm Ben in Newark: ↳ Mr Laura T Esq. @6:23 Would have been a whole different life trajectory if she'd gotten those cha-cha heels
	6:29pm mariano: ↳ Ben in Newark @6:29 That one poor fella wouldn't have died for art.
	6:30pm newton: ↳ Ben in Newark @6:29 would have been a good life choice for her parents too
	6:30pm morphe': Female Trouble free = no adverts archive.org...
	6:30pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ C @6:28 lol
	6:31pm Yes: Love emmet otter and bbq
	6:31pm Kevlicki: "we dont brush our teeth cos our toothaches can help us stay mean.... River Bottom Nightmare band!"
	6:31pm dale: doesn't emmett otter have a paul williams score?
	6:31pm Mr Laura T Esq.: day of the beast! so good
	6:32pm Erik in VT: “The Great Rupert” (a squirrel 🐿️) from 1950 = featuring Jimmy Durante & many other “charming” performers. It’s overall a very sweet & charming classic holiday motif movie.
	6:33pm Marie in Chicago: Speaking of Spain, I think I'm gonna watch a Pedro Almodovar movie later
	6:34pm Listener Bop Monroe: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down yes.
	6:34pm newton: The man who came to dinner is a christmas movie too
	6:35pm Mr Laura T Esq.: ↳ Marie in Chicago @6:33 women on the verge ...etc. has the most baby-faced antonio banderas
	6:35pm dale: sometimes i catch naked city and what blows my mind about nyc in the 60s is how little traffic there seemed to be.
	6:36pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Mr Laura T Esq. @6:35 hm, that sounds appealing. I might have seen that a long time ago... I'll see what they have on Criterion.
	6:36pm Mr Laura T Esq.: ↳ Mr Laura T Esq. @6:31 had to look it up but Álex de la Iglesia, the director of day of the beast also has an amazing new years eve move - my big night. it's really really funny and fun
	6:36pm Daybreak!: Never used a self cleaning oven feature on Christmas Eve!!! . We use the spray cleaner and let it sit for two hours because we're gonna be using the oven tomorrow and it was quite dirty. . We followed the instructions to clean it all out repeatedly with warm water and various rags. Then we thought: Let's run the self cleaning oven feature. . Our house has been filled with very toxic air according to the very nice air filter I bought when New Jersey's skies turned orange. . Fortunately by cracking various windows, using sheets to segregate the rest of the house , we are bringing things under control. . I'm about to jump in the shower and bring you all with me. The family is now in the basement watching a holiday movie
	6:37pm Kevlicki: Im going to finish watching Space Odyssey 2001 tonight.
	6:37pm Daybreak!: Dear Santa a.k.a. Dear Satan!
	6:37pm tonyb: “Come up to my room in an hour..and bring some rye bread” Durante in Man Who Came to Dinner.
	6:38pm Kevlicki: I got to the party late but I presume someone said Gremlins by now
	6:39pm DaveMiß: PeeWee’s Christmas is not to be missed! Grace Jones!
	6:39pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Daybreak! @6:36 On one hand: Yikes! On the other hand: You've got the start of a plot for a good Christmas movie.
	6:40pm Listener Bop Monroe: Peewee is a true Subgenius. praise 'bob'!
	6:40pm newton: ↳ Daybreak! @6:36 that self cleaning oven feature turns the oven into a self immolating incinerator!
	6:41pm mariano: ↳ dale @6:35 I think there were fewer cars overall and per capita. There was some law about not being able to park cars on the street overnight which changed in the 60s or 70s iirc which helped a lot. That's why kids were able to play stickball in the streets back in the day, cars didn't roll by as frequently.
	6:42pm Marie in Chicago: Jim's husband, Alan
	6:43pm Listener Bop Monroe: radio nephroscopy?
	6:43pm DjLorraine: Which type of k stone?
	6:43pm newton: ten centimeters is four inches
	6:44pm DjLorraine: Can ultra sound help?
	6:44pm newton: I had one 8 mm, at least they gave me morphine
	6:44pm Listener Bop Monroe: steak and kidney stone pie yum
	6:44pm drew: The x-mas of kidney stone passed.
	6:45pm Marie in Chicago: too bad you couldn't hook up a tracker/mini camera to Alan's kidney stone--a "Fantastic Voyage" of sorts
	6:45pm Listener Bop Monroe: is your name not Tuttle? no it's Buttle. oh sorry!
	6:45pm C: who has the cranberry log ?
	6:46pm DjLorraine: I just had sabzi with kidneys beans.
	6:46pm Listener Bop Monroe: "Central Services, we do the work, you do the pleasure!™"
	6:46pm Mr Laura T Esq.: 'Rare Exports' I think is the best recent Christmas movie.
	6:48pm Marie in Chicago: The Monte Christo movie sounds great
	6:52pm mariano: ↳ Listener Bop Monroe @6:45 I said Trading Places! Also, of course, Brazil, slipped my mind.
	6:52pm ultradamno: Morvern Callar and The Children are two of my favorite holiday movies
	6:52pm mariano: Micah! I bet there's some great Xmas music from cults.
	6:52pm common: ↳ ultradamno @6:52 the children! so good!
	6:53pm DaveMiß: ↳ mariano @6:52 That’s why i called!
	6:53pm DjLorraine: I'm looking forward to viewing The Last Showgirl
	6:53pm DaveMiß: Xmas monkey pox for everyone!
	6:55pm ultradamno: Oh, Vengeance Is Mine. Great movie!
	6:57pm Listener Bop Monroe: The Mafu Cage (also released as My Sister, My Love, Deviation and Don't Ring the Doorbell)
	6:58pm Listener Bop Monroe: this was fun JtP and all. B safe. Ho Ho Ho !
	6:58pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ DjLorraine @6:53 I want to see that! Love Pamela. HI!
	6:58pm dale: watch.plex.tv...
	6:58pm Daybreak!: Thank you so much for the show Jim on this weird Christmas Eve! Thank you so so much to Ken from Hyde Park for movie idea, or at least their short story idea to start a more approachable story format!
	6:59pm Daybreak!: I'm also gonna try to watch Bill Murray's Scrooged before midnight! We shall see!!!

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from December 24, 2024

Listener comments!

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