2023
You are browsing the archive for 2023.
Aquarium Playlist, 6/20/23
EPISODE #543: SUMMER 2023 Caroline No — “2023” [ALTERNATE THEME]Superchunk — “This Summer” The Tymes — “The Magic of Our Summer Love”High Back Chairs — “Summer”Plains — ”Summer Sun” Cathedral Ceilings — “Every Summer’s Eve” Wizard Brain — “Down the Shore”The Resonars — “Running to Summer”Jonny Couch — “Survival in the Summer”Phantom Handshakes — “Cricket […]
Movie Review: Sanctuary
3 stars out of 5 Last time I wrote about a French thriller, and because I’m a goofball, I nearly made a joke about French ticklers — but ultimately thought the better of it. Sanctuary, however, could use a tickler or two to spice things up. I have been a fan of Margaret Qualley since […]
Movie Review: The Night of the 12th
4 stars out of 5When I’ve been in a steady art-movie groove, I have had a reliable pleasure: French thrillers. They’re generally a notch above Hollywood thrillers, or at least the cool accents and unfamiliar settings make them seem that way. But the pandemic has been particularly hard on art-house theaters, with their audiences apparently […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/13/23
EPISODE #542: CASEY KASEM TRIBUTE 2023 “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” [ALTERNATE THEME]Terence Trent D’Arby — “Wishing Well” [Billboard No. 1, 5/7/88]Michael Jackson — “Dirty Diana” [No. 1, 7/2/88]Cheap Trick — “The Flame” [No. 1, 7/9/88 – 7/16/88]Beach Boys — “Kokomo” [No. 1, 11/5/88]The Bangles — “Eternal Flame” [No. 1, 4/1/89]Fine Young Cannibals — “She Drives Me […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/6/23
EPISODE #541: DRAG SHOW The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Tommy James & the Shondells — “Draggin’ the Line” The Magnetic Fields — “Andrew in Drag”Princess Reason — “Drag + Blur”Sid King & the Five Strings — ”Sag, Drag, and Fall” Space Daze — “Drag” Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift — “Love Is a Drag”The Cars […]
Movie Review: You Hurt My Feelings
3.5 stars out of 5I’m feeling a bit self-conscious. This whole movie is about hurt feelings; what if writer/director Nicole Holofcener (“Who I’ve had drinks with,” said in my best Jon Lovitz voice) googles this review and finds out I didn’t think it was perfect, and then feels all sad? Alas, like Lee Nails, I […]
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 […]
Jack Silbert, curator