Monty Python
Aquarium Playlist, 6/6/23
EPISODE #541: DRAG SHOW The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Tommy James & the Shondells — “Draggin’ the Line” The Magnetic Fields — “Andrew in Drag”Princess Reason — “Drag + Blur”Sid King & the Five Strings — ”Sag, Drag, and Fall” Space Daze — “Drag” Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift — “Love Is a Drag”The Cars […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/9/21
EPISODE #425: BREAKFAST The Who — “Happy Jack” [acoustic; ALTERNATE THEME]Orange Juice — “Breakfast Time”Art Brut — “Awkward Breakfast”The Incredible Casuals — “Love Gets Breakfast”Tom Waits — “Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson)”The Magnetic Fields — “The Best Cup of Coffee in Tennessee”High Waisted — “Cereal”They Might Be Giants featuring Elma Mayer […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/21/19
EPISODE #331: ABORTION RIGHTS The A’s — “A Woman’s Got the Power” [ALTERNATE THEME]Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five — “I’m Alabama Bound”Warren Zevon — “Play It All Night Long”Neil Young — “Southern Man”Screaming Females — “My Body”Nick Lowe — “Born a Woman”Alice Cooper — “Only Women Bleed”Sleater-Kinney — “Call the Doctor”Cinema Cinema — “Lady […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 10/14/14
EPISODE #150: BOYS’ NAMES, pt. 1 (A–M) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Reigning Sound — “I’d Much Rather Be With the Boys” Jojo — “Andre” Monty Python — “Brian Song” Cinema Red and Blue — “Charlie Clarke” Nellie McKay — “David” Arthur Russell — “Eli” Pens — “Freddy” Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle — “Gustavo” […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 9/16/14
EPISODE #146: LIFE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Sly & the Family Stone — “Life” R.E.M. — “Life and How To Live It” George Harrison — “What Is Life” Monty Python — “The Meaning of Life” Half Man Half Biscuit — “God Gave Us Life” T. Rex — “Life’s an Elevator” Built to Spill — […]
Movie Review: Monty Python Live (Mostly)
4 stars out of 5 Pallbearers carrying a coffin along a country road. This was my first memory of Monty Python. I was too young to watch it—my parents were watching, I suppose?—but the scene caught my eye. One of the pallbearers collapsed. The other pallbearers took notice, put the coffin down, opened it, put […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/15/13
EPISODE #59: MONEY The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Monty Python — “The Money Song” Chain and the Gang — “What Is a Dollar?” John Lee Hooker — “I Need Some Money” Pet Shop Boys — “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” Bruce Springsteen — “Easy Money” Mudhoney — “The Money Will Roll Right In” […]
Thank You, Andy Rooney
I like funny. Maybe more than anything, I like funny. Interesting to think about how a sense of humor forms. We all like to laugh, right? Most of us, anyway. But how does it start? Certainly, I’m no child-development expert. But at least from when my long-term memory kicked in, I know I liked cartoons. […]
Jack Silbert, curator