Sneaky Dragon

Hola, Sneakers, and welcome to the official sixth anniversary of Sneaky Dragon. Yes, it was six years ago that Ian and Dave gathered around a single, not-very-good microphone (because the dynamic mics that Dave brought didn’t work very well with our new midi interface) and recorded our first episode. It was a rough and bumpy ride, but we’ve smoothed out the experience over the years and we now like to call our shows “mostly painless”.

Speaking of mostly painless, this week on the show Ian and Dave tell us about our new spin-off podcast – Sneaky Dragon Listening Party – co-hosted by Dave and his daughter Mary – it’s a music podcast that goes back through the mixtapes Dave made for listeners starting three years ago; they celebrate an awkward anniversary; deal some Happy Days trivia; give out true facts about Bob Einstein; lose their sense of humour; remember Real People; do some bad vamping; remember That’s Incredible; reveal the secret history of 1968; besmirch acid gurus; sympathies for the swastika; Sabrina feelings; draw lots; uses for the I Ching; shame Dave; pitch Edgar Allen Poe, paranormal cowboy investigator; defend Mark Twain; never say never say never again; and, finally, Laurel Robertson’s Top 10 movies:

* The Darjeeling Limited

* The Spanish Prisoner

* The Sixth Sense

* O, Brother, Where Art Thou?

* The Prestige

* Alien

* Monty Python and the Holy Grail

* The Drop

* Gone Fishing

* A Hard Day’s Night

Thanks for listening.

This didn’t come up during the show, but here is a great, inept interview with a game Bob Einstein done for a local radio station:

Hola, Sneakers and music lovers everywhere! Welcome to the first episode of our Listening Party! This podcast is an attempt to document the 400+ songs that made up the Sneaky Dragon Mixtape Project undertaken by Dave starting in 2015. Did you send in a blank CD-R to get a mixtape? Have you ever wondered why you were sent the songs you got on your mixtape? Did you ever wonder what songs other people got on their mixtapes? Well, we hope we can answer these questions and many more on our first spin-off from the Sneaky Dragon podcast!

So, join Dave and his daughter Mary as they sit on the floor by the old record player, chatting and listening to some great songs from Dave’s extensive music collection.

This week, we take a look at “Side One” of Liam Penton’s mixtape. The final selection was burned to disc on the 11th of November, 2015. Unfortunately, during our talk, we missed some songs that had mysteriously disappeared from the iTunes playlist we used for reference during the taping, but fortunately, they were recorded in our notes and on the playlist CD cover so we’ll discuss those songs in Episode 2. (The missing songs are marked with an asterisk.)

Here are the songs from Side One of Liam’s mixtape:

* A.C. Newman – “On the Table” (from The Slow Wonder, 2004)

* The Five Americans – “Western Union” (from Western Union, 1967)*

* Roxy – “Love, Love, Love” (from Roxy, 1969)

* Denny Laine – “Say You Don’t Mind” (from Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers, 2001)*

* Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – “Ramp of Death” (from Pig Lib, 2003)

* Otis Clay – “That’s How It Is When You’re In Love” (from Testify!, 1967)

* Judy Kelly – “Window” (from Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon, 2006)

* The Ballroom – “Spinning, Spinning, Spinning” (from Magic Time, 1967)

* The Move – “Beautiful Daughter” (from Shazam, 1969)

* The Meat Puppets – “Up on the Sun” (from Up on the Sun, 1985)

* Local Rabbits – “West Island Rockers” (from You Can’t Touch This, 1996)

Please let Dave and Mary know if you enjoyed our newest show – you can write them via the usual channels: Twitter, Facebook, comment down below or email them at [email protected]

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 361 of the fabulous and fabled podcast Sneaky Dragon!

This week on the show, Ian and Dave do some more moving; get some helpfully unhelpful help; go into a state of zen; smell some bad good smells; partake in some shady dealing; get on the guff train; do Halloween for daddies; find some moochy areas; clear up some Halloween myths; let them eat candy; suck on some toads; have a bad memory; learn it’s time to replace Alec Baldwin; criticize bad parenting; find it bad for the psyche; wonder what the neighbours will think; make conscious choices; aren’t irreplaceable; yell “Get out of the way, oldsters!”; celebrate the films of Todd Silvestri; and, finally, discuss Brent Tannehill’s list of favourite films:

* Lilies of the Field

* The Haunting (1963)

* No Country for Old Men

* World War Z

* Coco

* Twelve Angry Men (1957)

* Bambi

* Raiders of the Lost Ark

* Saving Private Ryan

* Stagecoach

* His Girl Friday

* Trouble in Paradise

* Bride of Frankenstein

* Wizard of Oz

* To Kill a Mockingbird

* West Side Story

Bubbling under: The Human Comedy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1938), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939), and Fight Club

Want to get in on the fun? Would you like to send in your Top 10 movies list for Ian and Dave to peruse, abuse and enthuse? Well, feel free to contact Ian and Dave through the usual channels: Tweet, Facebook, comment down below or email your lists to [email protected]

And Brent Tannehill has thrown down the gauntlet: Can you name an actor who has never made a bad movie?

Here is a good video essay about one of the movies on Brent’s list:

Greetings, fellow Marxists! (The good kind!) This week Ian and Dave take a fond look at the late period Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca. This is the first Marx Brothers film that Dave ever saw. Does it hold up to his Grade 5 memories? Well, you’ll just have to listen to find out what the fellows think.

 

Hola, Sneakeritos! This week on Sneaky Dragon, the show goes full circle! To celebrate, Ian and David’s conversation goes round and round…

This week Ian and David have a strange meeting; get wet and humiliated; don’t chase stationary objects; stand corrected; get one upped; move it; converse concerning Casper; celebrate cartoons; contemplate canned music; chance upon a lucky find; collect odd varieties; make a whale of a show; speak of Moby; have funeral fun; watch scary movies; desperately seek continuity; and, finally, check out Tracy Deak’s Top 5 movie list:

* Amadeus

* The Princess Bride

* 2001: A Space Odyssey

* Rope

* Raiders of the Lost Ark

* Manhattan Murder Mystery

* Hamlet

* Love Actually

* Melancholia

* The Station Agent

Thanks for listening.

 

Hola, Sneaker! Welcome to Episode 359. Halfway to Episode 818!

This week on the show: let’s begin with passports; Coke rots; the Jekyll and Hyde question time; Terrytoon woodies; bad accents; Chekhov’s phaser; Star Trek questions unanswered; Bacula, Dracula, Blackula; Garfield thoughts; Snoopy problems; talking dogs; Dinosaurs and its crazy ending; coughing fit; M. Smith’s Top 10 movie list; and, finally, let’s end with passports.

* Bonnie and Clyde

* On the Waterfront

* The Right Stuff

* Diner

* City Lights

* Ordinary People

* Valley Girl

* Vivre Sa Vie

* A Little Princess (1995)

* Apocalypse Now

Thanks for listening.

 

This week Ian and Dave watch and discuss the Marx Brothers’ final MGM film The Big Store. We won’t bother to pretend that there is a possibility that Ian or Dave may have actually thought this was a great or even a good movie; they didn’t. It’s a so-so movie and here’s why…

We really enjoyed Virginia O’Brien’s appearance in the film. Here is a couple of  fun appearances by her:

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the best podcast on the Internet! THE BEST!!! Oh, sure you can probably-THE BEST!!!!!

Anyway, this week

THE BEST!!!!!!!!

Okay, this week on the show, Ian and Dave tackle tiredness, ; what Dave eats; muffins, not muffins; regulation eating times; taking a break; no structures; pod money; signs of a successful podcast; mad for metric; electric lunches; hanging the DJ; the Sean Cullen beef; conceptual jerks; a gym hero; lack of cowboy-ness; misleading trailers; live soundtrackin’ with The RZA; our Wu-Tang names; cinema hypocrite; bum biters; staying awake; racetrack stories; horse facts; ghost-proof real estate; the Conjuring universe; predators; the garbage scow; return of the Treasury of Wit; an apology; and, finally, Haden Parke’s Top Ten movie list:

* Drive

* Darkman

* Blade Runner

* The Last Unicorn

* Hot Fuzz

* Hudson Hawk

* Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

* Gattaca

* The Princess Bride

* Ip Man

Thanks for listening!

That misleading trailer:

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 357 of this crazy, wacky journey. We are happy you are making the trip with us.

This week on the show, Ian claims to make the first joke; they have an ethical dilemma; do a jello potluck; meet transit wasps; impersonate Seth Rogen; perform the healthiest martial art; talk boring politics; follow the rule of three; marvel at the wonder of newspapers; get back their damage deposits; say no to moving; say yes to spiders; play their parts; say no to dumb humour; so yes to smart humour; talk Venom; change their minds and say yes to dumb humour; remember answering machines; get phoney baloney phone calls; and, finally, talk Chris Roberts’ Top Ten movies (Please note that Chris gave us his list as best film of each decade starting with the 1920s):

* 1920’s: The General – Runner-up: The Kid

* 1930’s: Duck Soup – Runner-up: The Awful Truth

* 1940’s: My Favorite Wife – Runner-up: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

* 1950’s: Night of the Hunter – Runner-up: Forbidden Planet

* 1960’s: A Hard Day’s Night – Runner-up: The Graduate

* 1970’s: Dog Day Afternoon – Runner-up: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

* 1980’s: This is Spinal Tap – Runner-up: The Accidental Tourist

* 1990’s: In and Out – Runner-up: GoodFellas

* 2000’s: Pan’s Labyrinth – Runner Up: Spirited Away

* 2010’s: Scott Pilgrim Vs the World – Runner-up: Pride

Thanks for listening.

Want to get in on the fun? Would you like to send in your Top 10 movies list for Ian and Dave to peruse, abuse and enthuse? Well, feel free to contact Ian and Dave through the usual channels: Tweet, Facebook, comment down below or email your lists to [email protected]

Hello, fellow Marxists! This week Ian and Dave sit patiently through the Marx Brothers’ Go West – a film some feel is the best of the late period MGM films; others say, “Meh”. Where do Ian and Dave fall in this controversy? Well, give this podcast a listen and all will be made clear…as mud.