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One of the members of my graduate thesis committee is Brian Bell's father; I could just shoot him an email (if that wouldn't be INSANELY inappropriate...)
If we're looking at the weezer song "Buddy Holly," and I'm right about something with the "lost my shoe" lyric... this would be DJJD's way of confirming that the act in question is NOT weezer... right?
Post by kkrrissttinnaa on Jan 20, 2010 18:01:58 GMT -5
In any case, the direction we're going is DEFINITELY a song. Has anyone mentioned specific Buddy Holly songs here before page 9? It's either a Buddy Holly song or the song "Buddy Holly" that hold the answer, I'm like... I feel really sure about that.
The "no answer here" linking to Buddy Holly seems to imply that going in the Buddy Holly direction is wrong, but the Gary Busey direction is right.
I'm still inclined to interpret that in the exact opposite way. What makes you think that means Busey is the right direction? The link's about him too.
One of the members of my graduate thesis committee is Brian Bell's father; I could just shoot him an email (if that wouldn't be INSANELY inappropriate...)
I'm pretty sure we'd have better luck asking Karl than Brian's father.
The other thing I was looking at was lyrics to Buddy Holly songs that mention some sort of state of jolliness. In "Rip it Up", he sings, "It's Saturday night, I'm a happy, happy soul." So when is Buddy jolly? On Saturday night. I don't know what band would be a solution for "Saturday night", though. (Except for Bay City Rollers).
okay so i'm going to try this tack: going to go back through the first few threads and keep gary busey's imdb open while i do so. investigate anyone mentioned from anywhere busey has called home via wikipedia
insane yet?
i really hope this doesnt have something to do with lethal weapon. haha.
One of the members of my graduate thesis committee is Brian Bell's father; I could just shoot him an email (if that wouldn't be INSANELY inappropriate...)
I'm pretty sure we'd have better luck asking Karl than Brian's father.
Post by empyrelounge on Jan 20, 2010 18:05:32 GMT -5
true...but djjd said "normally I would suggest getting as far away from Gary Busey as you can, but not in this case"...and the no answer here was specific to buddy holly. so no to holly, yes to busey was how I took it as well
Post by evenpjflow on Jan 20, 2010 18:06:52 GMT -5
i think he sent the amazon page to say it doesn't have to do with the movie exactly, meaning it has to do with Buddy Holly, but not the Busey or the film, but then again I'm probably wrong....
I'm pretty sure we'd have better luck asking Karl than Brian's father.
WTF is Karl?
Karl is kinda like weezer's 5th man but isn't actually in the band. Maybe 6th man, now that they've added a member. He's their chief roadie/website/fanclub guy. The first time I saw weezer, he played drums while Rivers sang Buttefly. He's listed in the Pinkerton liner notes as "Karl Koch : Karl Koch" instead of being associated with an instrument.
Think of it like this: Karl is to my rebel weezer alliance board as something like DJJD would be around Inforoo...
The "no answer here" linking to Buddy Holly seems to imply that going in the Buddy Holly direction is wrong, but the Gary Busey direction is right.
I'm still inclined to interpret that in the exact opposite way. What makes you think that means Busey is the right direction? The link's about him too.
Yeah, you are correct. I misinterpreted. You are on the right path, but maybe it's referring to a Gary Busey role NOT Buddy Holly?
Busey is listed as composer on the film Nashville....
someone mentioned the decembrists via the "holly jolly christmas" route. that's a song, and the guess was mostly ignored. perhaps something else to do with december, or the holidays.
Post by rooconteur on Jan 20, 2010 18:10:47 GMT -5
don't know if it's been mentioned, but the rolling stones and the dead both cover(ed) "not fade away," a buddy holly tune. i believe it was one of the stones' first big hits
3 just played...but before moving over to that one I wanted to state my belief of the person who was close to it but then left was whoever invoked using the lyrics of "Rip it up" by Buddy Holly (gary busey) to solve #2. I've looked over the lyrics and don't know where to begin to derive and artist from them but i feel that was the most sober and rational path of deduction.
Is there some correlation between Buddy Holly's "Rip It Up" and the UP from DJJD?
Well it's Saturday night and I just got paid I'm a fool about my money, don't try to save My heart says "go go, have a time" Saturday night and I'm feelin' fine
Gonna rock it up, gonna rip it up Gonna shake it up, gonna ball it up We're gonna rock it up, and a ball tonight
Well along about ten I'll be flying high I'll rock on out unto the sky I don't care if I spend my dough It's Saturday night I'm a happy, happy soul
Gonna rock it up, gonna rip it up Gonna shake it up, gonna ball it up Gonna rock it up, and a ball tonight - owww
Well along about ten I'll be flying high I'll rock on out unto the sky I don't care if I spend my dough It's Saturday night I'm a happy, happy soul
Gonna rock it up, gonna rip it up, gonna rip it up Gonna shake it up, gonna ball it up We're gonna rock it up, and a ball tonight
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 20, 2010 18:15:45 GMT -5
He did say "drink up" but only as a way to tell us Alberta Cross wasn't the answer. Don't think there's any double meaning there.
I keep coming back to the fact that he said "le canchon" - THE song, not A song. Keeps making me think the song "Buddy Holly" might be a likely path. Only problem is, with only three words in our clue we don't have much to work with. If "Buddy" gets us to the song, then all we've got is "when Jolly" to tell us what to look for in the song.
Post by kkrrissttinnaa on Jan 20, 2010 18:15:56 GMT -5
Someone mentioned Mary Tyler Moore. I found this about her: :At the age of 17, Moore aspired to be a dancer. She started her career as "Happy Hotpoint", a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials during the 1950s series Ozzie and Harriet."
An elf is jolly, and the name even has "happy" in it.
For those who aren't up on the Mary Tyler Moore connection,
"Wooooo I look just like Buddy Holly, Ohhh and you're Mary Tyler Moore..." -from the Weezer song, "Buddy Holly"
So... does anyone have any ideas about the word "Hotpoint"? Gonna keep reading about Ms. Moore.
EDIT: Found more: via Wiki: "She was the star of a new musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's in December 1966, but the show, titled Holly Golightly, was a notorious flop that closed out-of-town before reaching Broadway...
She appeared in previews of the Neil Simon play Rose's Dilemma at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2003 but was fired before the show opened, because she was not able to learn her lines."
I think it's the other way around - he's saying to stick close to Busey as a way of steering us towards Buddy Holly.
The recent tweet seems to suggest that we're looking at actual Buddy Holly, and not Busey as Buddy.
Where to go from here?
maybe back to where it all matters most, le chanson.
So to break this part down, djjd does not correct kdogg on his logic that we're looking at Buddy, not Busey, and then tells us to go to "the song".
The songs mentioned thus far have been: Holly Jolly Christmas Buddy Holly (by Weezer) Rave On (by Buddy Holly, covered by M Ward) Rip it Up (by Buddy Holly, contains lyric "It's Saturday night, I'm a happy happy soul.")
Are there others we've mentioned that I'm missing? I can't get past the Saturday night line, but I have no idea what it could lead to.
Between the suggestions that this clue is heavy, and the "Rip It Up" reference to Saturday night... I suspect we might be dealing with a headliner here.