December 2020
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New Year’s Resolutions 2021
1. Wear mask. 2. Wear mascara. 3. Enter my beautiful house with my beautiful wife. Oh wait. 4. Print and sell bumperstickers: My Other Car is an Honor Roll Student 5. Hire Jellybean Benitez to remix my oatmeal. 6. Fill out early ballot for 2024 election. 7. Though it’s true nice guys finish last, put […]
Separated at Birth XLI
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Aquarium Playlist, 12/29/20
EPISODE #415: NEW TO ME 2020, LIVESTREAMINGIn the pandemic year of 2020, I saw 333 livestreaming musical performances by 300 different artists. Of those, 183 were new to me, and I bought music by 16 of those artists. The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Beach Bunny — “Dream Boy”Thayer Sarrano — “O My Soul”Architrave — “Elevation”Wussy […]
Movie Review: News of the World
4 stars out of 5Movie theaters reopened in New Jersey, at limited capacity, on September 4. Since then I’ve seen three films at my local cinema here in Hoboken: On the Rocks, Let Him Go, and Mank (which, unfortunately, turned out not to be a biopic of my long-ago crush Krys Mankowski). But a couple […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/22/20
EPISODE #414: NEW TO ME IN 2020 + LIVE HIGHLIGHTSIn the pandemic year of 2020, I only saw 100 performances by 95 different musical acts. Of those, 38 acts were new to me, and I bought music by 9 of those acts. The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Anderson Council — “Sitting on a Cloud”Special […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/15/20
EPISODE #413: HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2020Darlene Love — “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” [ALTERNATE THEME]Charles Brown — “Merry Christmas, Baby”Ernest Tubb — “Blue Christmas”Nils Harning — “Oy Chanukah!”April March and Los Cincos — “Last Train to Christmas”Pom Pom Squad — “Hello Santa Claus”Nancy and Mark — “Last Year’s Tree”Wild Nothing — “One Christmas Catalogue”The Birthday Kiss […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/8/20
EPISODE #412: DREAMS IVThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]LCD Soundsystem — “American Dream”Glenn Morrow’s Cry for Help — “Other Side of the Dream”Such Small Hands — “Still Dreaming”The Bachelor Pad — “Girl of Your Dreams”Courtney Marie Andrews — “Carnival Dream”Gary Olson — “A Dream for a Memory”Mascott — “Dreamer’s Book”The Planes — “Dreaming”The Catenary Wires […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/1/20
EPISODE #411: 9TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RADIO VOL. VIII)The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Paul Shaffer — “When the Radio Is On”Sylvan Esso — “Radio”The Psychedelic Furs — “Heartbreak Beat”Dirty Fences — “911”R.E.M. — “Radio Song” [unplugged]Michael Stipe — “Drive to the Ocean”Lana Del Rey — “Radio”Sloan — “Lemonzinger”Nicole Atkins — “AM Gold”Bad Moves — “Local Radio”The […]
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