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  • October 1990 Pop Culture: Christian Slater, Whit Stillman & Woofs

    October 1990 Pop Culture: Christian Slater, Whit Stillman & Woofs
    Jul 23 2024
    Who has tattoos? What snack does Iggy Pop most resemble? How seriously do we need to take Perry Farrell's 1990 First Amendment statement? What's wrong with Whit Stillman? Is there a minimum age for album reviewers? What's "Balt"?! We answer all these questions and so many more in the October 1990 Pop Culture episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1990 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch: Balthazar Getty 🎧 Feature: Christian Slater Has Simple Needs 🎧 Feature: Don’t Mess With Her 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🌴 Again With This, our sister podcast on (among others) Beverly Hills, 90210 🧑‍🚀 Faith No More's "We Care A Lot" live, on YouTube ("The Right Stuff" riff is at 2:20) 🫂 The official "We Care A Lot" video on YouTube 🪦 Information on the I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago, on Lubricated Goat singer Stu Spasm, at Magic Umbrella's website 🦟 "To The Mosquitoes" by Perry Farrell ☄️ Aaron Cometbus on Wikipedia 📕 BookThugNation on Instagram 📸 Aaron Cometbus in a post on Julia J. Wertz's Instagram 🚌 Cometbus 📖 Zine-o-Matic 😓 Mo' Better Blues on Starz 🔊 Pump Up The Volume's soundtrack on Wikipedia 🎶 Pump Up The Volume's music supervisor Kathy Nelson 🎞️ "Talk Hard: The Making Of The Teen-Angst Classic 'Pump Up The Volume''" at The Ringer 🌆 Metropolitan on Max 🎬 Metropolitan trailer on YouTube 🎵 Monie Love's "Monie In The Middle" video on YouTube 📺 Monie Love's "It's A Shame" video on YouTube 📸 Monie Love on Instagram 🐕 Jane's Addiction's website 📸 Peggy Sirota's website 🥃 Los Angeles Times report on Christian Slater's DUI sentencing 🤝 "Queen Latifah On Women Uniting: 'When We Stand Together There Is Nothing More Potent" at Variety 🧺 "The Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop Is The Love Of My Life With Common, Queen Latifah, And Digable Planets" At MXDWN 🏳️‍🌈 "'Happy Pride!': Queen Latifah Thanks Her Partner Eboni During The BET Awards" at Them 🥋 Tara's review of Cobra Kai S06 (Part I) at Cracked
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    44 mins
  • October 1990 Teen Life: Driving Lessons, Alcoholism & Croutons

    October 1990 Teen Life: Driving Lessons, Alcoholism & Croutons
    Jul 9 2024
    More so than usual, the Teen Life topics of the October 1990 issue are here to help you figure out your life. What might a wise older person tell you about trying to get your driver's license? What jobs are so weird you might actually want to do them? How do you heal from a parent's substance use issues? Then there's Amy, who writes an It Happened To Me about her internship at Mad magazine, not knowing what hangs us all up is her throwaway detail about spending the summer BEFORE that working at a crouton factory, but...did she? Really? Or is she just putting on airs (and seasoning)? Tampon durability, the first Sassiest Boy In America, and more all await you in our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1990 🎧 Feature: Getting My Driver’s License? No Sweat. 🎧 Feature: My Alcoholic Father 🎧 Feature: Are These Jobs Weird Enough For You? 🎧 Feature: Ian Is Too Sassy 🎧 Fiction: Mr. Taylor 🎧 Help 🎧 It Happened To Me: Interned at Mad Magazine 🎧 What He Said: Can Guys And Girls Be Just Friends? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ✍🏻 Illustrator J. Otto Seibold 🚙 Room To Live at Texas Archive 🥃 Al-Anon 🍸 Adult Children Of Alcoholics 🕵🏻‍♀️ Beth Bronner on NNDB 🤳 Bronner on Transplant Village 🏎️ Shannon Eis in the Late Show segment "Dave's Holiday Go-Kart Of Fun!" on YouTube ⛱️ Eis in the Late Show segment "Summer Toys" on YouTube 🎙️ Ian Svenonius on Wikipedia 🎶 The Nation Of Ulysses's début album on YouTube 🚷 "Ian Svenonius Publishes And Deletes Post About Being 'Completely Inappropriate To Women'" on Pitchfork 📸 Svenonius on Instagram 📜 Pamela Christman on Poets & Writers 🎥 Samuel Bayer on Wikipedia 👩‍🏫 A Teacher on Hulu [CW: grooming] 👨🏻‍🏫 The Kids In The Hall sketch "Groovy Teacher" on YouTube 📬 Subscription page for the defunct magazine Mad on the DC website 📖 Mad's October 1986 issue on Scribd 🫥 Tara's list of forgotten 90s sitcoms on Cracked
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    59 mins
  • September 1990 Fashion Etc.: Shoes, Lubriderm & Even More Dutch Boy

    September 1990 Fashion Etc.: Shoes, Lubriderm & Even More Dutch Boy
    Jun 25 2024
    Shop like a model; dress like an elf!
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    50 mins
  • September 1990 Pop Culture: Movie Sequels, James Marshall & The Hothouse Flowers

    September 1990 Pop Culture: Movie Sequels, James Marshall & The Hothouse Flowers
    Jun 11 2024
    There's a lot of pop culture in the September 1990 issue that will need revision sooner or later. Like: a report on the cancellation of 21 Jump Street, just weeks before its revival in syndication. And: making James Marshall One To Watch off the strength of one season of Twin Peaks, before he went off the grid. Or: an extensive feature on The Hothouse Flowers, perhaps to justify the expense of whoever paid for Christina to go to Dublin and interview them. And while giving Die Hard 2 a mere 2 stars is, of course, a matter to taste...it's not taste we share. All this and much more awaits you in our latest podcast!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is September 1990

    🎧 What Now

    🎧 Watch It

    🎧 Listen Up

    🎧 One To Watch

    🎧 Feature: Why The Hothouse Flowers Are My New Favorite Band

    🎧 Goodbye For Now

    NOTES

    🤷‍♀️ The June 1990 Pop Culture episode, containing Christina's middling review of Suzanne Vega's album Days Of Open Hand

    🏆 "Eskimo Yoyo Champion" on YouTube

    🚔 21 Jump Street on Wikipedia

    🕰️ Another 48 Hrs. on Paramount+

    🤖 Robocop 2 on Max

    ✈️ Die Hard 2 on Hulu

    👕 James Marshall's Gap ad

    ⛰️ "Twin Peaks: The Return's James Marshall on David Lynch, Reviving 'Just You,' and Whether His Character Is Actually Cool" at Vulture

    📸 @jamesmarshallartist on Instagram

    🎞️ Tara's Ron Livingston appreciation at Cracked.com
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    43 mins
  • September 1990 Teen Life: Tricking Boys, Puppy Mills & Painting

    September 1990 Teen Life: Tricking Boys, Puppy Mills & Painting
    May 21 2024
    The first thing you need to know about this episode is that there was an issue with one of the tracks. It doesn't matter who did what: the result is that Dave had to use a backup to the backup, which means this is going to be a more rough-and-ready version of the podcast than you're used to. We're sorry about that, but hey: it'll be all the more enjoyable when the next episode reaches you with its usual level of polish. MOVING ON: the September issue's Teen Life topics include gangs, puppy mills, and a bedroom painting project your parents are probably never going to let you do. Fortunately, we also get a report from Kim about which boy-meeting strategies worked best at a recent party attended by several eligible Sassy staffers. We'll also touch on braces, veins, a conversion to Islam in RECORD speed, which girls are allowed to dress "provocatively," and an annoyingly brief Stuff You Wrote. Grab your Rollerblades (but put on a helmet first) and join us!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 All the usual stuff except it is all stuck together because of REASONS.

    NOTES

    👨‍🎨 "Dutch Boy 1991 Television Commercial" on YouTube

    🐶 The ASPCA's mini-site on puppy mills [warning: graphic images]

    🎨 Maybe or maybe not the Billy Gallo who painted for Karen

    💬 Billy Gallo in the November 1988 What He Said

    📚 Enid Harlow on GoodReads

    🌴 The Again With This podcast
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    37 mins
  • August 1990 Slumber Party: MTV, Extra Balls & East Side Mario’s

    August 1990 Slumber Party: MTV, Extra Balls & East Side Mario’s
    May 7 2024
    The two of us who grew up without MTV do our best on the August 1990 quiz, Rate Your MTV-ness! (That "best" is...bad.) Then it's on to your latest calls! What bedding treasures are you finding online? Who's out here defending Madonna's I'm Breathless? Which chain restaurants reign supreme? We thrill to the journeys you're taking us on in the August 1990 Slumber Party!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is August 1990

    🎧 Quiz: Rate Your MTV-ness

    🎧 From The Hotline

    🎧 Goodbye For Now

    NOTES

    👨‍🚀 Rate Your MTV-ness

    🆙 An August 1990 episode of MTV's Turn It Up on YouTube

    🐝 A 1990 episode of MTV's Buzz on YouTube

    🫡 "MTV's 1990 BUZZ Cut-up salute to William S. Burroughs" on YouTube

    👭 Video for The Cure's "Close To Me" on YouTube

    🏹 @TribesTheSeries on YouTube

    🍋 Lemon/cow duvet at AliExpress

    🔥 Extra Hot Great 509 featuring Dan Cassino

    🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
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    32 mins
  • August 1990 Fashion Etc.: Boats, Socks & Diets

    August 1990 Fashion Etc.: Boats, Socks & Diets
    Apr 23 2024
    It's nearly time to go back to school, and Sassy has your wardrobe inspiration. Retro nerd? Cute jock? Merchant marine? It's all possible if you run with Sassy's latest tips. There's also advice on doing your hair and makeup like you didn't try, making perfectly good underwear borderline unwearable, and ads, ads, ads. (Yes, Filippo-Totti is back, THANK GOD.) Turn down your Keith Sweat or MC Hammer albums and listen to all our thoughts on the August 1990 issue's Fashion (Etc.)!

    QUICK LINKS

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    ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is August 1990

    🎧 Fashion Feature: Academia

    🎧 Fashion Feature: Dressed To Play The Game

    🎧 Fashion Feature: Water Proof

    🎧 Making It: Under Where?

    🎧 About Face

    🎧 Sassy Ads

    🎧 Sassy Club

    🎧 Goodbye For Now

    NOTES

    👛 Burnout Velvet Black Mary Poppins Weekender at MCWHandmade.com

    👚 Women's 1988 Rollneck sweater at JCrew.com

    🗻 LookoutAndWonderland.com

    🧦 Socks at TabioUSA.com

    💅 Stop Nail Biting MS at PotentialsUnlimited.com

    ✈️ Tara's review of Conan O'Brien Must Go at Cracked
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    49 mins
  • August 1990 Pop Culture: Michael Rank, Michael Rank & Michael Rank

    August 1990 Pop Culture: Michael Rank, Michael Rank & Michael Rank
    Apr 9 2024
    Considering that Pam has not seen a single one of the five movies reviewed in the August 1990 Watch It, we find an awful lot to say about them. But that's not all! There's also dolphins, Butt-head, Goo, spack, Barbie, garbage, Sondheim, Michael Rank, Michael Rank, and Michael Rank -- and it's all stuck together with God's glue. If that's not Enuff? Z'Nuff! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1990 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Kip Winger 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🧏‍♂️ Gallaudet University Deaf President Now protest timeline at Gallaudet.edu 🥔 Chip Z'Nuff on Instagram 🐄 The Cows "Daddy Has A Tail!" on YouTube 🐮 Cows on what. on YouTube 🌍 "Unity 2: Shirlee" on YouTube 🏞️ Tom Petty "Into The Great Wide Open" video on YouTube 🌅 "Into The Great Wide Open" on Wikipedia 🍫 Kids In The Hall sketch "No Chocolate Diet" on YouTube 💿 "Controversial Album Art: Sonic Youth - Goo" at ScruffyTheory.com 📷 Original photo on which the Goo album cover art is based, at ScruffyTheory.com 📭 Reddit post about the photo 👀 Witness (aka Evil Relations) by David Smith on Amazon ⚖️ "He saved so many children: Two months after his death in his beloved Galway, David Smith's wife Mary says he has never been credited for helping bring the Moors Murderers to justice" at DailyMail.com 🟡 Sonic Youth's cover of the Simpsons theme song 🎸 Michael Rank on Bandcamp 😬 Lyrics for Winger's "Seventeen" 🫂 "Winger end feud with Beavis and Butt-head writer" at LouderSound.com 🤝 "Kip Winger Finally Got An Apology From Metallica" at UltimateClassicRock.com 🪽 Kip Winger's website 🌴 Tara's Palm Royale review at Cracked.com 📜 Pam on Episode 636 of the ScriptNotes podcast
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    47 mins