2022
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Movie Review: Happening
4.5 stars out of 5Hmm, how to get Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito to see this movie? Because they really need to. And yet, are any of them bright enough to read subtitles? Happening is a French film which takes place in 1963, though it may as well be Red State America, fall […]
Movie Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
4 stars out of 5Can we please just can it with the multiverse for a hot minute? Couple of pals said, “you gotta see Everything Everything All at Once,” yet three words into the summary I read, it said multiverse, and I was all, thank you but no; myself and my parallel selves are outta […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/17/22
EPISODE #487: MAYBE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Eyelids — “Maybe More”The Connells — “Maybe”Lesley Gore — “Maybe I Know”Arthur Russell — “Maybe She”Okkervill River — “Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe”The Smittens — “Maybe It Is Me”Colleen Green — “Maybe I’ll Get Hit by a Car Tonight”Richard Davies — “Sign Up Maybe […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/10/22
EPISODE #486: IMAGINATION The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Exploding Flowers — “Imagine All Possibilities”Robert Forster — “Let Me Imagine You”Brian Wilson — “Your Imagination”The Temptations — “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)”Bill Withers — “My Imagination”Joan Jett — “Make Believe”The Easybeats — “The Land of Make Believe”Kitty Wells — “Making Believe”Conway Twitty — “It’s […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/3/22
EPISODE #485: GROOVIN’ The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Katrina & the Waves — “She Loves To Groove”Wizard Brain — “Keep On Groovin’”The Lees of Memory — “(We Got To Be) Groovin’”Leon Bridges — “Twistin’ & Groovin’”The Equals — “Soul Groovin’”Earth Wind & Fire — “Let’s Groove”Isley Brothers — “Groove With You”The Cucumbers — “Body Groove” […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/26/22
EPISODE #484: WIND The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Roy Orbison — “Borne on the Wind”Deena and Chasing Colours — “Everybody Knows the Way the Wind Blows”Beach Boys — “Let the Wind Blow”Fats Domino — “Let the Four Winds Blow”They Might Be Giants — “I Hear the Wind Blow”Ian & Sylvia — “Four Strong Winds”Jimi Hendrix […]
Movie Review: The Outfit
2.5 stars out of 5I texted my friend Lex Burling right after seeing the trailer for this movie a while back. I needed to tell her that, on the front window of a tailor shop in the film, it prominently says “L. BURLING.” I also said in that text exchange that initially The Outfit looked […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/19/22
EPISODE #483: MUSEUMS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Modern Lovers — “Girl Friend”Pete Galub and Matt Kanelos — “Museum of Brotherly Love”Daniel Johnston — “Museum of Love”Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 — “Museum of Sex”Aimee Mann — “At the Frick Museum”The Clientele — “The Museum of Fog”Danny Cohen — “Museum of Dannys”Game Theory […]
Movie Review: The Batman
4 stars out of 5It had been five and and a half weeks and I still hadn’t seen The Batman. Seven-dollar Tuesday came and went. Just wait till Monday and fire it up on HBOMax? No, I’d seen every Batman flick since 1989 in the theater and by god, I wasn’t stopping now! Which is […]
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