May 2023
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Aquarium Playlist, 5/30/23
EPISODE #540: -OUT SUFFIX The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Los Straitjackets — “Blowout!” Yo La Tengo — “Fallout”Air Waves — “Knockout”Nick Lowe — ”Checkout Time” Me in Capris — “Cookout Time” The New Pornographers — “Whiteout Conditions”Jackie Wilson — “Baby Workout”Cheap Trick — “Lookout”Kid Gulliver — “Beauty School Dropout” Freezing Hands — ”Good Morning Takeout” […]
Movie Review: It Ain’t Over
3 stars out of 5I didn’t want to see it. But I had 8 hours to kill between checking out of the Berkeley Hotel and doors opening at the House of Independents for the rock and roll hootenanny. Eating only lasts so long. But movies, movies are good. You go in at one time, and […]
Movie Review: Evil Dead Rise
4 stars out of 5I came late to the Evil Dead series. I was 14 when the original film was released, and my slightly twisted buddy Rob Mosley was obsessed with it. And yet a few decades passed before I finally gave it a chance (dear reader, I must admit I didn’t even “get” the […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/23/23
EPISODE #539: PRIVACY The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The B-52’s — “Private Idaho” Delta 5 — “Mind Your Own Business”Warren Zevon — “Splendid Isolation”Helen McCookerybook — ”Big Brother” Skateboard Kyle — “Private Browsing” Rockwell — “Somebody’s Watching Me”Michael Jackson — “Leave Me Alone”Neil Finn — “Recluse”Oingo Boingo — “Private Life” New York Dolls — ”Private […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/16/23
EPISODE #538: WEIRD The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Male Bonding — “Weird Feelings” The National feat. Bon Iver — “Weird Goodbyes”Pete Yorn — “She Was Weird”Ex Cops — ”Weird With You” Radiator Hospital — “Weird Little Idea” The Special Pillow — “Sleeping Weird”Grass Jaw — “Weird Hell”Oingo Boingo — “Weird Science”Art Brut — “Weird Science” […]
Movie Review: Beau Is Afraid
4 stars out of 5I described Ari Aster’s 2018 film Hereditary as “seriously f’ed.” And in 2019, I said his film Midsommar was “100% f’ed up.” But not until writing this review did I realize that those two movies and new release Beau Is Afraid (pretty messed up in its own right) were written and […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/9/23
EPISODE #537: LINES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Pailhead — “Don’t Stand in Line” Kiwi Jr. — “Waiting in Line”The Bangles — “I’m in Line”They Might Be Giants — ”I Can Help the Next in Line” The Kinks — “Who’ll Be the Next in Line” Dew Claw — “The Line”Cait Brennan — “Lines”Architrave — “Yellow […]
Movie Review: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
3.5 stars out of 5Full disclosure, I never read this book, nor have I ever been an 11-year-old girl. I think I read Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, does that count? At any rate, in hopes of gaining slightly better understanding of all the former 11-year-old girls in my life — and to support […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/2/23
EPISODE #536: SLEEP OF THE JUST The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Lana Del Rey — “Dark but Just a Game” Wire Troop feat. Laura Cantrell — “Just One More Night”Mick Jagger — “Just Another Night”King Mike Entertainment System — ”Just Another Mike” Emma DeCorsey — “Just Lick Me” Dressy Bessy — “Just Like Henry”Swearin’ — […]
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