September 2015
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By Jack Silbert on September 29, 2015
EPISODE #200: MUSIC The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Mendoza Line — “Baby, I Know What You’re Thinking” The Beach Boys — “Add Some Music to Your Day” Barry White — “Let the Music Play” Big Audio Dynamite — “Just Play Music!” Kim Fowley — “Music Is the Magic” Homescience — “Small Music” Lon […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged 200th episode, ABBA, Barry White, Beach Boys, Big Audio Dynamite, George Jones, Heron, Homescience, Kim Fowley, Liam Finn, Lon & Derrek Van Eaton, meta, Sly & the Family Stone, The Mendoza Line, The School, The Tripwires, unpopular music, Village People
By Jack Silbert on September 25, 2015
3.5 stars out of 5 My man Depp in a true-life organized crime story? There was no way I was going to miss this. I knew very little of the life of James “Whitey” Bulger and had only mentioned him once before on this website. So I was looking forward to learning a thing or […]
Posted in movie reviews | Tagged 10s movies, Boston, Johnny Depp, Whitey Bulger
By Jack Silbert on September 25, 2015
Kevin Bacon in Black Mass and Ty Burrell
Posted in separated at birth | Tagged Black Mass, Kevin Bacon, Modern Family, Ty Burrell
By Jack Silbert on September 22, 2015
EPISODE #199: THE END OF THE WORLD The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] R.E.M. — “I’m Gonna DJ” Elvis Costello — “Waiting for the End of the World” Herman’s Hermits — “End of the World” Jens Lekman — “The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love” The Verlaines — “Doomsday” Elvis Perkins — “Slow […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Barry McGuire, Bob Dylan, Eels, Elvis Costello, Elvis Perkins, Herman's Hermits, Jens Lekman, Morrissey, R.E.M., Sloan, The Clash, Verlaines, Weekend, Willie Nile
By Jack Silbert on September 15, 2015
EPISODE #198: REQUESTS XI The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Super Furry Animals — “Venus & Serena” [for Allan] Wire — “Map Ref. 41°N 93°W” [for Jim] TV on the Radio — “Halfway Home” [for Judith] Temples — “Shelter Song” [for Efrain] Ray LaMontagne — “Julia” [for Jimmy] Leon Russell and Elton John — “If […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Aimee Mann, Airborne Toxic Event, Big Country, Bill Morrissey, Elton John, Graham Parker, Klark Kent, Lemonheads, Leon Russell, Luka Bloom, Procol Harum, Ray Lamontagne, Spoon, Stewart Copeland, Super Furry Animals, Temples, The Smithereens, TV on the Radio, unpopular music, Wire
By Jack Silbert on September 8, 2015
EPISODE #197: BENNY TUDINO’S in memory of Bari “Benny” Drishti The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Charlie Christian Jammers — “Waitin’ for Benny” Allo Darlin’ — “Europe” Otis Ball — “Slow Boat to Hoboken” Laura Marling — “Sophia” The Marys — “Mr. Woods” Louis Prima — “Angelina/Zooma Zooma” (medley) The Bouncing Souls — “The Pizza […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Allo Darlin', Amy Allison, Bari Drishti, Benny Drishti, Benny Tudino's, Bouncing Souls, Charlie Christian, Courtney Barnett, Gene D. Plumber, Hoboken, Laura Marling, Louis Prima, Macauley Culkin, Otis Ball, Personal & the Pizzas, pizza, Robyn Hitchcock, The Marys, The Pizza Underground, unpopular music
By Jack Silbert on September 8, 2015
4 stars out of 5 This is an example of a movie that I ended up liking a lot more than I realized while watching it. Because there were definitely a few things going on that I wasn’t crazy about: —It’s really cheap-looking. Sometimes the production values reminded me of a basic-cable TV movie, and […]
Posted in movie reviews | Tagged 10s movies, Germany, World War II
By Jack Silbert on September 4, 2015
In March of 1994, my buddy Joe and I signed a lease on a Hoboken apartment. We went to a pizza place called Benny Tudino’s to celebrate, sitting at a booth in the back room. That became our regular table, and every Sunday night that both of us were in town, we’d be there splitting […]
Posted in personal history | Tagged Benny Drishti, Benny Tudino's, Hoboken, pizza, the single life
By Jack Silbert on September 2, 2015
3.5 stars out of 5 So this is the story of a 15-year-old girl who starts having an affair with her mom’s 35-year-old boyfriend. Spoiler alert: If you’re waiting for the dude to be hauled off in handcuffs for statutory rape, you will be disappointed. Because the movie isn’t about that, man: It’s San Francisco […]
Posted in movie reviews | Tagged 10s movies, Alexander Skarsgård, Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig
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