The Musicks in Japan
Episode 56: This house party sucks
K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about how bad this party sucks.
C: The party that we’re at.
K: So, I have this thing whenever things in my life aren’t going well – I have this phrase that I say. And it’s from, I think, either a Beastie Boys song or – I think it’s a Beastie Boys song, “this party sucks.” No, it’s not the Beastie Boys. It’s not. I forget who the artist is. I’m so sorry, and I hope I don’t get copyright claimed, but I think – but that’s a YouTube thing.
C: That is a YouTube thing.
K: They don’t copyright claim. (laughs) Music on podcasts. But the lyrics are “this party sucks, it really sucks. Leave me alone. I’m going home. This party sucks. The band’s too loud, and I hate this fucking crowd. This party sucks, it really sucks. Leave me alone, I’m going home. This party sucks.”
C: Okay, I know the song now that you say it, but I have no idea who sings it.
K: Yes. And I played it for you once. I found, like
C: You have, yes.
K: Because you were like, “that’s not a real song.”
C: You’ve been saying it for like twenty-something years.
K: Yeah. So, the song’s over 20 years old. From, like – the first time I heard the song, I heard it at a garage – it was a garage band performance, and I was like, “this is… awesome.”
C: Okay, I think the first time I heard you say it was the first time that we had bottled water, Dasani brand.
K: Okay.
C: Do you remember that?
K: Yes.
C: Because the first time that we had Dasani bottled water – and this was before it was everywhere.
K: Yeah, and it was so – I love Dasani water.
C: Yeah. We were coming out of the premiere of the Sixth Sense
K: Yes.
C: And they had people from Coke, who makes Dasani, standing there handing out bottles.
K: Yes. And I told everybody who was in line that the movie fucking sucked because I was wasted.
C: Yeah.
K: And, so, I told everybody, “the movie sucks.” And I ruined the ending.
C: You did not ruin the ending.
K: No, I didn’t do a spoiler. I just said, “the movie sucks. It’s so obvious and stupid. It sucks. It was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.” Because I’m one of the few people on earth that hated the Sixth Sense.
C: Well, and when you say, “the movie’s obvious” I’m like, “ugh, why’d you tell me the ending?” But nobody else is that way.
K: Yeah, so, to me, I feel like I spoiled the ending.
C: Yeah.
K: And, so, for over twenty years, you’ve been telling me, “no, babe, you didn’t spoil the ending.”
C: You didn’t.
K: I’m like, “when I said it’s obvious – the movie’s obvious – I think it spoils the ending.”
C: Only for me because I know – I know the particular things you mean by obvious. The particular twists that you’re like, “that’s obvious.”
K: Yes.
C: And you were wasted on
K: So, spoiler alert, spoiler alert. Turn off the podcast if you’ve never seen the Sixth Sense. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. Bruce Willis is dead. And I knew that Bruce Willis
C: The character.
K: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. (laughs) Like as if Bruce Willis even knows we exist. So, the Sixth Sense, at the end of the movie we find out he was dead. But, to me, it was obvious the way that everybody was interacting with him that he was dead and didn’t know it. And it was obvious that, when we looked at him, and he said, “I see dead people”, he’s trying to tip him to the fact, “dude, you’re dead.”
C: Yeah.
K: And then I don’t like the trope of – so, one, I think the Sixth Sense can be a cautionary tale to every therapist who practices therapy from their own home. But I really don’t like the – I always hated movies that cast mentally ill people as a danger to their