October 2017
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Song Review: “Blood (Coming Out of Her Whatever)” by psych-O-positive
The mostly-Hoboken supergroup psych-O-positive released their debut single today. I wrote a review for hMAG.com.
Aquarium Playlist, 10/31/17
EPISODE #255: MIRRORS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Cold Beat — “Mirror” Zipper — “Mirror” Dr. Dog — “Mirror Mirror” TV Girl — “Mirror Mirror” Pearl Jam — “Rearviewmirror” The Velvet Underground — “I’ll Be Your Mirror” Eleanor Friedberger — “She’s a Mirror” The Human League — “Mirror Man” Michael Jackson — “Man in […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/17/17
EPISODE #253: L.A. MUSICIANS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] X — “Los Angeles” The Blasters — “Marie Marie” Los Lobos — “Don’t Worry Baby” Dream Syndicate — “Too Little, Too Late” The Turtles — “Me About You” The Bangs — “Getting Out of Hand” The Go-Go’s — “How Much More” Redd Kross — “Peach […]
Movie Review: Blade Runner 2049
4 stars out of 5 When I was young, I’m fairly certain I had a paperback of Blade Runner, inside of which I learned the book was originally titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Although, proving the fallacy of memory — which is a big theme in this film — in my mind I […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/10/17
EPISODE #252: TOM PETTY TRIBUTE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers — “Even the Losers” Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty — “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” Del Shannon — “Drop Down and Get Me” Johnny Cash — “Southern Accents” The Byrds — “So You Want TO Be a Rock ‘n’ […]
Movie Review: Battle of the Sexes
3 stars out of 5 This is perhaps a 4-star movie for anyone too young to be aware of the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs match — especially girls and young women — or anyone who needs a refresher in equal rights now that we’re enduring Trump’s America. But judged simply as a film, I have […]
Hallucination #3: Springsteen
A series of recollected hallucinations from my early weeks of hospitalization, 2016. As Bruce Springsteen begins his highly anticipated run on Broadway, I thought it was high time to recount when my infection-ravaged mind took me from the hospital to E Street. I certainly had Bruce on the brain: I entered Hoboken University Medical Center […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/3/17
EPISODE #251: NOTHING LASTS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Roy Orbison — “It’s Over” The Smiths — “I Know It’s Over” Bessie Banks — “Go Now” Dionne Warwick — “Walk on By” Big Eyes — “Since You Left” Elvis Presley — “Heartbreak Hotel” Johnny Cash — “Sea of Heartbreak” Bob Dylan — “Don’t Think […]
Enough With the Guns Already
Another goddamn mass shooting. And this is why we can’t have nice things. Well, forget it, guns are done, and if you think otherwise, shut the fuck up, your opinion is no longer valid. “Wah, my Second Amendment rights.” Stick the Second Amendment up your ass, you non-18th-century-militia-member shitbag. “I’m protecting my family.” So your […]
Jack Silbert, curator