2022
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Aquarium Playlist, 1/11/22
EPISODE #469: CLASSIC ROCK Theme suggested by contest winner Marian Steffens. The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Led Zeppelin — “Rock and Roll”The Doors — “Peace Frog” Jimi Hendrix Experience — “Manic Depression”ZZ Top — “La Grange”Chicago — “Questions 67 and 68”Rolling Stones — “Respectable”Creedence Clearwater Revival — “Fortunate Son” Patti Smith — “Ask the Angels” […]
Pandemic Cinema, Year 2
A chronological list of movies (feature length and short films) that I watched at home during the continuing COVID-19 crisis in 2021. The great majority of them were new to me. The Chimp (1932)A Night at the Opera (1935)Doubt (2008)The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)Block-Heads (1938)A King in New York (1957)Smithereens (1982)Adventures in Babysitting (1987)Dogfight […]
My Highly Subjective List of the Best Movies of 2021
Another Covid-screwed year at the movies, and until last Tuesday this was only going to be a Top 9 list. Still, thanks to the reopening of the Clairidge Theater in Montclair (kudos to Evelyn Colbert and the good people of Montclair Film), I was able to see some quality late-year releases on the big screen […]
Movie Review: The Tragedy of MacBeth
5 stars out of 5I’m not much of a Shakespeare buff, but MacBeth is my boy, yo! We read it in junior year of high school, and with my pals Steve, Rob, and Ken, made a related video project entitled Late Night With David MacLetterman. Two years later, I was lucky to see Christopher Plummer […]
Aquarium Playlist, 1/4/22
EPISODE #468: MOTOWN Theme suggested by contest winner Marian Steffens. The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Kiwi Jr. — “Maid Marian’s Toast”Smokey Robinson & the Miracles — “(Come ’Round Here) I’m the One You Need” The Supremes — “Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart”The Four Tops — “You Keep Running Away”Martha Reeves & the […]
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