From: ddrewc@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net   
      
   First commercial break music: "All My Loving" by the Beatles   
      
      
   Jeff Goldblum:   
      
         - intro music: "In Walked Bud" by Thelonious Monk   
      
         - Jeff had his hair cut short recently for a movie. Conan had his   
   hair cut short on the sides while in Seattle, which was a big risk for him:   
   ``This hair is a national treasure... I think I could actually lose my job   
   if I shaved my head and came to work and said, `I'm still funny, man!' ''   
      
         - Jeff wonders if cutting a man's hair causes him to lose his power,   
   like Samson. He initially refers to the Samson ``movie,'' then corrects   
   himself and says the story comes from the Bible. Conan seizes on this: ``   
   `Remember that movie, `Jesus Christ'? How'd they come up with that   
   character?' That's how Hollywood you are.''   
      
         - Jeff remembers seeing the movie "Samson and Delilah" as a kid and   
   being sexually aroused when Delilah cut Samson's hair. To this day,   
   whenever he enters a hair salon or barber shop, he finds the lady   
   haircutters and attendants ``excruciatingly, in that setting, alluring....   
   As soon as I go to that atmosphere, they just all look so wonderful... so   
   good. I'm excited by it.'' Conan: ``Good thing you're wearing a big bib.''   
      
         - He tells Conan that in England, a ``ginger'' (pronounced with hard   
   g's like in ``gingham'') is a term for a redhead. Someone he knew overheard   
   a Brit say that he (or she) ``would never sleep with a ginger,'' but Jeff   
   finds redheads ``very sexy, very alluring... on the female side.''   
      
         - Every time Jeff comes on the show, he is wearing a different pair   
   of cool glasses. Conan tries on Jeff's current pair. Jeff thinks the   
   pinkish tint of the lenses suits Conan, but Conan doesn't think so. Jeff   
   doesn't wear contacts because he is very sensitive, and his eyes get easily   
   irritated. Does he find women who wear glasses attractive? It depends. If   
   there's any close contact, the glasses (his and hers) ``have to come off so   
   that there can be all manner of cranial contact.'' He demonstrates by   
   touching his face all around his eyes, and Conan makes fun of him: ``I've   
   seen you in cars. You're like, `Check out the sockets on that one.' ''   
      
         - Jeff marvels that ``there's an infinite number of parts of your   
   face that can contact an infinite number of parts of her face.'' He tries   
   to demonstrate with Conan, who protests having to portray the woman. He   
   wonders if Conan has ever, when kissing, gone very close and looked into   
   the other person's eye. Without kissing, Jeff presses his eye up against   
   Conan's, but Conan suddenly recoils, saying his eye jelly touched Jeff's   
   eye jelly.   
      
         - Jeff recently made a quasi-documentary movie (Conan calls it a   
   ``docudrama, mocumentary, documontrie''), "Pittsburgh," about returning to   
   his hometown of Pittsburgh and staging "The Music Man." Conan has a small   
   part in it, yet is prominently featured as one of the cast members. Jeff   
   thinks this is justified because Conan is ``brilliant'' in it.   
      
         - Wrapping up the interview, Conan calls Jeff ``Socket Man'' and says   
   ``I'll rub jelly with you any day.''   
      
         + Miscellaneous comment: at a particularly strange point in this   
   conversation, Conan said, ``If anyone wants a transcript of this later on,   
   it will be available.'' I began to wonder if maybe he reads this newsgroup.   
      
         + This is my seventh episode summary for this group, and by   
   coincidence I've drawn Goldblum twice. Not that I'm complaining; he's a   
   terrifically oddball guest.   
      
      
   Devon Aoki (pronounced DEHV-in ay-OH-kee):   
      
         - Shows a photo of herself as a ``ginger'' baby. She had red hair   
   until she was about seven. Conan asks about the credit card she appears to   
   be holding in the photo, and she says it was an American Express. Conan: ``   
   `Cardholder since I was 1.' ''   
      
         - She grew up in a military family, where she mastered how to tie   
   knots at a young age. ``My mom's friends would come over, and I would   
   basically tie them in knots and then steal their wallets and sort of run   
   the other way.'' She stopped at the age of 5, which is ``usually when kids   
   stop tying people up and stealing their wallets,'' Conan says.   
      
         - Conan asks her what she thinks of Jeff's affinity for rubbing his   
   eye sockets against his lady's. She thinks it's a little weird, but she   
   thinks butterfly kisses are nice. Conan, as an uptight Catholic, isn't sure   
   what a butterfly kiss is, and she confirms it is fluttering one's eyelashes   
   on someone else's skin. Conan asks her about eye-jelly-to-eye-jelly   
   contact, noting that Jeff is sitting next to her if she wants to try it,   
   but she demurs.   
      
         - She started out as a model, then became an action star. In   
   preparation for her last film, "War," her stunt coordinator sent three or   
   four guys from China to stretch her legs so she could kick behind her head   
   if necessary. She would lie on the floor and the guys would hold her down   
   and pull her legs back as far as possible. When she first tried to kick   
   after stretching like this, ``I kicked so hard and so high, I actually   
   kicked myself in the face... I almost knocked myself out.''   
      
         - While working on "Sin City," she stayed at a hotel in Austin,   
   Texas, where a biker conference was taking place. But her weapons training   
   for the movie came in handy: ``Basically, the lobby of the hotel is just,   
   like, swarming. I could never really make my way in and it was just packed.   
   And the day that I came in with all my weapons -- I had, like, a hatchet   
   blade and some knives and stuff -- it was like the parting of the Red Sea.''   
      
         - Her father, Rocky Aoki, is the founder of the Benihana restaurant   
   chain. As a young child, she celebrated every birthday at Benihana. The   
   current President Bush used to go there a lot, but hasn't been there since   
   he became president because the dazzling knife-wielding demonstrations   
   there were deemed too dangerous. Conan: ``That's the saddest part of his   
   presidency. `What was the worst part, Mr. President?' [Imitates President   
   Bush:] `Can't go to Benihana.' ''   
      
         - They show a clip from "War."   
      
      
   Okkervil River:   
      
         - Performs "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe" from their album "The   
   Stage Names." The band consists of six young men dressed in suits with lots   
   of raw musical energy. It's hard to categorize their sound -- they have an   
   emotionally expressive lead singer who is backed by a diverse array of   
   acoustic and electric instruments. There is a jam-band quality about them,   
   with rock and folk influences.   
      
         - They seem to have put more than the usual effort into crafting the   
   lyrics to this song, which interweaves the language of moviemaking with   
   scenes from a failed relationship: ``It's just a life story, / so there's   
   no climax. / No more new territory, / so pull away the IMAX.'' I can't   
      
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