2013
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Movie Review: The Family
0 stars out of 5 I’ve seen worse movies. I think I have. But this film’s spectacular failure in almost every regard is especially of note, given the combined talent and international cooperation involved. Based on an Italian book. Directed and co-written by France’s Luc Besson, director of La Femme Nikita and Léon: The Professional […]
Highest Paid DJs/Lowest Paid DJs
According to Forbes magazine: the world’s highest-paid DJs in 2013… …and the lowest-paid:
My Internet Radio Playlist, 9/10/13
EPISODE #93: ASK JACK, INSTALLMENT 7 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Smiths — “Ask” Question from John: What is love anyway? Does anybody love anybody anyway? Post-answer song: Daniel Johnston — “Love Defined” Question from Audrey: The cashier at the cafe in my office building where I get my lunch most days always […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 9/3/13
EPISODE #92: BACK TO SCHOOL 2013 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Hives — “Fall Is Just Something That Grownups Invented” Rockpile — “Back to Schooldays” [live] Chuck Berry — “School Days” Josie Cotton — “School Is In” The Beach Boys — “Be True to Your School” Portastatic — “And I Was a Boy […]
Movie Review: If These Knishes Could Talk
4 stars out of 5 When my family moved to California when I was a wee lad, I remember people poking gentle fun at the way my Bronx-raised mom spoke. They’d point out her saying “A glass of wawtuh,” instead of waaa-ter, or however they said it way out west. It was my first inkling […]
Jack’s 2013 Fall TV Preview
Oh sure, it’s easy to write a fall TV preview when you’ve been sent DVD screeners and top-secret URLs and download codes. It’s another matter altogether when all you have to go on is the TV Guide Fall Preview 2013. But for the second year in a row, that’s what I’m going to do for […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 8/27/13
EPISODE #91: THE END OF SUMMER The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Bruce Springsteen — “Girls in Their Summer Clothes” Life in a Blender — “Summer Goes Too Fast” New York Dolls — “End of the Summer” Dar Williams — “The End of the Summer” Palma Violets — “Last of the Summer Wine” Florence & […]
Movie Review: In a World…
3.5 stars out of 5 In the ’90s, my then-roommate Joe and I were watching Letterman, and Hank Azaria was the guest. He started riffing on movie-trailer voiceovers. “A Time to BLAAAH” was the phrase that really cracked us up, and we repeated it to each other over and over again. I had never really […]
Holiday Inn, Tewksbury-Andover
Eating room service French onion soup in the dark hoping the baby will sleep Merlot arrived sheathed in Saran Wrap sealed for someone’s protection not mine Two-alarm fire in a three-story building watched across the way yesterday We were safe, always safe bag baby 2000 Subaru Brooklyn Brookline beyond Puncturing cheese with a hotel spoon […]
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