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By Jack Silbert on April 16, 2014
4 stars out of 5 In Her, Scarlett Johannson was just a voice; in Under the Skin, she’s just a body. But what a body, am I right, fellas?!? And I will readily admit, they had me at “Scarlett Johannson is an alien seductress.” But ogling certainly isn’t the point here. Under the Skin is […]
Posted in movie reviews | Tagged 10s movies, Jonathan Glazer, Scarlett Johannson, Scotland
By Jack Silbert on April 15, 2014
EPISODE #124: PASSOVER The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Desmond Dekker — “Israelites” Yo La Tengo — “Pharaoh Blues” Oingo Boingo — “Not My Slave” The Fresh & Onlys — “Plague of Frogs” Bruce Springsteen — “Darkness on the Edge of Town” Hank Williams — “Angel of Death” John Zorn — “Exodus” The Beatles — […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Animation, Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Desmond Dekker, Hank Williams, John Zorn, Johnny Thunders, Jonathan Richman, Mekons, Oingo Boingo, passover, Razorcuts, Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Fresh & Onlys, The Smiths, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, unpopular music, world religions
By Jack Silbert on April 9, 2014
Or, at least, the Hoboken Reporter picked up my recent essay about Kurt Cobain. Thanks!
Posted in shameless self-promotion | Tagged Hoboken, Hoboken Reporter, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
By Jack Silbert on April 7, 2014
EPISODE #123: SPRING CLEANING The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Go-Betweens — “Spring Rain” Echo & the Bunnymen — “Do It Clean” LCD Soundsystem — “Dance Yrself Clean” Elvis Costello & the Attractions — “Clean Money” M. Ward — “Clean Slate” Vehicle Flips — “The Clean Slate” Spoon — “Deep Clean” Camera Obscura — […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged B.B. King, Camera Obscura, Dream Syndicate, Echo & the Bunnymen, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Jennifer O'Connor, LCD Soundsystem, M. Ward, Niall Connolly, Spoon, spring, spring cleaning, The Go-Betweens, The La's, unpopular music, Van Morrison, Vehicle Flips, X
By Jack Silbert on April 5, 2014
Kurt Cobain took his own life on April 5, 1994, but we didn’t learn the news until Friday, April 8. Can you imagine that today, three days passing? No distraught tweet from Courtney Love? No Instagram of the body from an assistant coroner, whose account is taken down the next day? It was bad enough […]
Posted in personal history | Tagged Hoboken, Kurt Cobain, New Jersey, New York, Nirvana, Pittsburgh, popular music, trains, unpopular music
By Jack Silbert on April 4, 2014
3.5 stars out of 5 Remember that infamous footage of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein? Well, there’s no video evidence of it, but Rumsfeld also shook hands with my mom. No, seriously. This was a handful of years ago, and my folks were at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. […]
Posted in movie reviews | Tagged 10s movies, Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris
By Jack Silbert on April 4, 2014
3.5 stars out of 5 If they told us in Hebrew school that Adam and Eve had a third son named Seth, well, maybe I was absent that day. Regardless, Cain and Abel seemed to get all the press. Seth was the Zeppo of the family. The Chuck Cunningham. Now, Darren Aronofksy is out to […]
Posted in movie reviews | Tagged 10s movies, Darren Aronofsky, Russell Crowe, the Bible
By Jack Silbert on April 1, 2014
EPISODE #122: BASEBALL The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Jimi Hendrix — “The Star-Spangled Banner” The Baseball Project — “Past Time” “Here Come the Yankees” [artist unknown] Yo La Tengo — “Meet the Mets” Wild Man Fischer — “I’m Selling Peanuts for the Dodgers” The Mountain Goats — “Cubs in Five” Jonathan Richman — “Walter […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Barbara Manning, baseball, Belle & Sebastian, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Henry, Jonathan Richman, Karl Hendricks Trio, Mountain Goats, New York Yankees, S.F. Seals, Simon & Garfunkel, The Baseball Project, unpopular music, Wild Man Fischer, Yo La Tengo
By Jack Silbert on April 1, 2014
For the winter 2014 issue of JCI Magazine, I profiled a hidden-away Italian-American “dining club”—15 Fox Place. The article now appears online. Mangia!
Posted in shameless self-promotion | Tagged JCI Magazine, Jersey City Independent
By Jack Silbert on April 1, 2014
For my first piece on the Antenna Free TV website, I explain how the method I use to decide which recorded shows to watch is similar to the method I use to eat a plate of cheese fries.
Posted in shameless self-promotion | Tagged Antenna Free TV, cheese fries, television
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