As someone who really enjoyed the martial arts farce The Foot Fist Way, the news that the film’s masterminds (including the movie’s star, Danny McBride) have a new HBO show called Eastbound And Down was exciting. Finally, the pay-cable comedy series focused on the world of trucking that I’ve waited my entire life for. And clearly the title is a tribute to the late Jerry Reed’s single originating from his co-starring role in Smokey And The Bandit. Unfortunately, in a heartbreaking move, the show has absolutely nothing to do with trucking as far as I can tell; it focuses on something about a baseball player becoming a P.E. teacher. But hey, any excuse to post one of the greatest songs about interstate trucking, I suppose. [New York Observer]
HBO Steals The Title Of One Of My Favorite Songs
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The pilot episode is out there on the internets, and it’s good.
Or, they could be fans of this album
[www.last.fm]
Their use of Lee Hazlewood’s “Pour Man” during the preview clips is reason enough for me to watch (even if I mistook it for “Tried So Hard” by the Flying Burrito Brothers at first). And I think in order to be fully ingratiated into the Apatow workspace you must live & breathe all things Smokey, per the end credits of Anchorman - it’s a sickness?
@disinterested 3rd party: Be sure to check in on Friday. Well, be sure to check in every day, (repeatedly, from multiple computers) but if you want to see some Red Sovine coverage, Friday especially.
@Dan Gibson: “but if you want to see some Red Sovine coverage,” There’s a phrase that’s not getting a lot of use lately. Can’t wait to see your much overdue reappraisal of “colorado cool aid” and “I didn’t jump the fence.”
I dare you to do a tribute to Red Sovine. Many a bourbon soaked night in college was spent listening to that guy. First chore would be to title the genre he created: “Spoken word, country/trucker rap…”
“Come on back and talk to Teddy Baar…”.