100% Badass: The Carl Weathers Interview

 

"It's all in the hips. It's all in the hips." Behold...Carl Weathers.

Questions for Carl Weathers?

In what will almost certainly go down as the greatest interview in the history of interviews, the Stuck in the '80s team of Daly and Spears are chatting with the totally awesome Carl Weathers on Thursday. Aka Apollo Creed (!) and Action Jackson (!!) and Chubbs Peterson (!!!), the 61-year-old Weathers is currently starring with fellow former footballer Michael Strahan on the FOX sitcom Brothers. Weathers has been a dream interview of mine for years. Why? Because he's a &!%$# badass that's why! I mean, come on! He's Carl &!%$# Weathers, man! Are you ready? Are you set? Ding...ding!

WHO HAS QUESTIONS FOR CARL WEATHERS?

'Aunt Bunny is comin' to get me!' Eddie Murphy leads list of best comedy albums

 

I was 13 years old in 1983. And in lieu of having anything remotely interesting to say, I basically just regurged lines from Eddie Murphy's Comedian ("Now that's a fire!") and the five other comedy albums I knew by heart. LOTSA LAFFS RIGHT HERE.

Whither Eddie Money? Morningwood, Jet kick off Friday's Ribfest bacchanal in St. Pete

Morningwood |MTV Music

For years, the annual Ribfest pork orgy at Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg has been soundtracked by a cavalcade of '70s and '80s acts. Think Eddie Money, Night Ranger, Asia, Pat Benatar. But lookee here, boys and girls: This year's beeftacular will be kicked off by the sexed-up art-pop of Morningwood (up there is the video for new song Sugarbaby) and the cocksure Aussie brigade of neo-Stonesian rockers JET. How cool is that?! Don't worry: George Thorogood and Blue Oyster Cult will be there Saturday. And everybody will get their country fix on Sunday with the Zac Brown Band and my pal Suite Caroline . But I'll be there Friday to cheer on the changes. Here's the full Ribfest schedule.

Crave more Cusack? Here you go, kids...

 

* The Stuck in the '80s tandem of Daly and Spears continues to bicker about the 10 Best John Cusack Movies -- this time, in the newspaper. RAGE FORTH.

* St. Pete Times film critic Steve Persall pens a downright brilliant critique on new Cusack disaster-porn flick 2012. READ THAT.

* And for your lunchtime listening pleasure, cue up our John Cusack podcast. LISTEN HERE. 
 

Pick a new dumb column costume for SD!

If you ever wonder what happens to your keen playlist suggestions and related audience participation, you should know that a lot of it winds up in the Sunday paper. Sure, I take all the credit, thus bamboozling loyal reader Madge in Clearwater into thinking I'm some sort of pop-culture savant. (Madge, it should be noted, also thinks "cats are just like people.") But I do appreciate each and every one of you.

Anyway, Sunday's Pop Life column in the Floridian section of the St. Pete Times is where you guys usually show up. It's art-designed by my genius friend Girl Thursday (aka Holly Ringwald) and copy edited/policed by my brilliant pal Dawn. I hope you guys get a chance to see the real ink-on-paper deal sometime. It's a great-looking page. Alas, the Web version of the column isn't very nice at all. But here you go anyway: the Cracker Barrel Playlist (I like the final version a lot better actually), the most melodic TV 'toons (a little different than the blog one) and the Glee soundtrack. CHECK IT OUT.

By the way, it's getting time to shoot more of these nutty column shots. We're looking for costume ideas, so let 'er rip. You know me: There's not much I WON'T wear, mantyhose included. Whatever you suggest, I'm sure Halloween Queen Stephanie Hayes has in her zany closet at home.

PODCAST! 'Grosse Pointe Blank' is John Cusack's best movie (and 'High Fidelity' sucks)

 

The unfairly handsome Stuck in the '80s podcast team of Daly and Spears is back, baby! This month, John Cusack celebrates the 20th anniversary of Say Anything... and the release of disaster-porn epic 2012. So we thought this would be a swell time to honor the Top 10 Flicks of our definitive '80s actor. (Or is he?) Prepare to disagree with everything Sean says RIGHT HERE.

SD's 2009 Christmas Music Spectacular!

 

I should apologize now to all 68-year-old divorcees and related Neil Diamond fans. I usually love cheesy Neil. I even love gooey, greasy Velveeta Neil. But his new Cherry Cherry Christmas is a stinker. Of course, I'm obviously delirious, 'cause I somehow liked David Archuleta's yuletide offering, that cute lil' Disneyfied eunuch. For all the ho-ho hits, READ THIS, BOYS AND GIRLS.

'Glee' soundtrack out in stores today (love that Puck cover of 'Sweet Caroline')

The Glee soundtrack just showed up in my mailbox. And although only half of the 17 tracks are inspired, the good stuff is pretty damn great. You know Don't Stop Believin' and Somebody to Love. But my fave is bad-boy Puck's smarmily seductive Sweet Caroline. A man after my own twisted, manipulative heart. Enjoy!

What do Celine Dion, Babs Streisand and the Tubes' terrifying Fee Waybill have in common?

They all help pay off David Foster's three ex-wives. How do I know this? Because while you were out gallavanting Friday, having the time of your young, fruitful lives, I was working.