2019
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Aquarium Playlist, 10/29/19
EPISODE #354: HALLOWEEN 2019 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Stumpy Joe — “Halloween Song”Long Neck — “Halloween Parade” (demo)Graveface Records & Curiosities — “The Occurrence at the Omni Park Inn”The Pogues — “Haunted”King Khan & the Shrines — “Shivers Down My Spine”Roky Erickson & the Aliens — “I Walked With a Zombie”Antsy Pants — “Vampire”Daniel […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/22/19
EPISODE #353: THE FALL The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Veronica Falls — “Falling Out”The Schramms — “Won’t Fall Down”Cold Beat — “Falling Skyline”Neil Young — “Falling Off the Face of the Earth”Amy Rigby with Todd Snider — “Til the Wheels Fall Off”Dennis Diken With Bell Sound — “Fall Into Your Arms”Crowded House — “Fall at […]
Movie Review: Joker
3 stars out of 5 Joker is not your daddy’s superhero movie. It’s a gritty, artsy, psychological exploration for people who wouldn’t know a gritty, artsy, psychological exploration if it bit them on the ass. I served with Marty Scorsese. I knew Marty Scorsese. Marty Scorsese was a friend of mine. Todd Phillips, you’re no […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/8/19
EPISODE #351: WANNA The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Soft Boys — “I Wanna Destroy You”The Ramones — “I Wanna Be Sedated”Colleen Green — “I Wanna Be Degraded”Prince — “I Wanna Be Your Lover”Tom Waits — “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”Best Coast — “I Wanna Know”Papercuts — “Do You Really Wanna Know”The Raspberries — “I […]
Kids and Dogs Look at Me Funny
This Saturday, October 5, I’ll be holding my second-annual “Don’t Diss Disabilities” discussion at the Hoboken Public Library. I wrote a preview for hMAG.
Aquarium Playlist, 10/1/19
EPISODE #350: EVERYTHING The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Dolly Mixture — “Everything and More”Them — “I Can Only Give You Everything”The Orange Peels — “Tonight Changes Everything”Cyndi Lauper — “Money Changes Everything”Teenage Fanclub — “Everything Flows”Karl Hendricks — “Everything Stupid Becomes Cool”The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — “Everything With You”Terry Malts — “Seen […]
Movie Review: Ad Astra
3.5 stars out of 5On the line to buy movie tickets, I asked the woman behind me what she was seeing. “Downton Abbey. You?” Brad Pitt in space, I told her. I got up to the register and, from outside Theater 2, my friend Meghan called out to me. What a nice surprise! I asked […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/24/19
EPISODE #349: CRYING The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]TRØN & DVD featuring Amy Bezunartea — “Cry Now, Laugh Forever”Johnny Cash — “Cry, Cry, Cry”Beat Happening — “Cry for a Shadow”Solomon Burke — “Cry to Me”Karyn Kuhl Band — “Crying”The dB’s — “World To Cry”Pete Galub — “Crying Time”Marshall Crenshaw — “Calling Out for Love (at […]
Movie Review: Miles Davis — Birth of the Cool
5 stars out of 5 When I was learning about music in the ’80s, Miles Davis was a presence, albeit an odd one. He seemed grumpy, Prince dug him, and Miles faced away from the audience. (Well, if that was good enough for the Jesus & Mary Chain….) I slowly realized what an important figure […]
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