June 2012
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My Internet Radio Playlist, 6/26/12
EPISODE #30: SOLITUDE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] De La Soul — “Me, Myself, and I” Dusty Springfield — “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” R. Stevie Moore — “Play Myself Some Music” They Might Be Giants — “I Palindrome I” Love — “Alone Again Or” Gilbert O’Sullivan — “Alone Again […]
My Friend Carol, #2: Carol’s Mother
as told to Jack Silbert Grandma Lucy was, I guess, half American Indian. She worked at the Warren Green Hotel as a chef; I have a picture of her. And I think Mama’s father was an American Indian, but I don’t think my grandmother was married to him. Mama had two sisters, Aunt Helen and […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition IV
Having departed an office job since Edition III, I guessed I might start watching a whole lot more television. And, although I don’t shave quite as often as I once did, and a bit more time stretches between doing the laundry, my TV viewing time has actually remained pretty steady. So let’s get caught up, […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 6/19/12
EPISODE #29: SUMMER The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Undertones — “Here Comes the Summer” John Wesley Harding — “Summer Single” Chris Stamey — “The Summer Sun” Fastbacks — “In the Summer” Neon Indian — “Deadbeat Summer” Papercuts — “Summer Long” Bruce Springsteen — “Girls in Their Summer Clothes” Jan & Dean — “She’s […]
I Wish More People Would Pay Me To Write About Music
Here’s a short piece on the band The dB’s that I did for the June issue of New Jersey Monthly.
On the RAZR’s Edge
So I’m walking home last night, and I plug my earphones into my phone, which is a Droid RAZR. Why don’t you have an iPhone, Jack? Well, the thing is, I’m extremely Apple-loyal, always have been, but I don’t want them to totally run my life. Plus, I had a Verizon account, and they didn’t […]
My Friend Carol
By the end of the two-hour shift, Carol and I had become pretty good friends. This was a couple of weeks ago, both of us volunteering at a library book sale right here in Hoboken. Our backgrounds might be a bit different, but it was quickly apparent that we had a shared sensibility. Carol turns […]
Movie Review: Bernie
3.5 stars out of 5 I don’t rush out to see Richard Linklater movies. It’s collateral damage as my Ethan Hawke boycott carries on. Still, Linklater and I go way back. The summer I graduated from college, his Slacker came out, which sort of defined my generation (and was set in Austin before Austin was […]
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