2023
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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’ — […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/25/23
EPISODE #535: TOWN TOPICS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Replacements — “Happy Town” Big Eyes — “Leave This Town”The Smithereens — “Girls About Town”The Sundays — ”Hideous Towns” Rufus Wainwright — “Going to a Town” Ezra Cohen — “Talk of the Town”Lucinda Williams — “East Side of Town”Fan Modine — “One Company Town”The Rock […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/18/23
EPISODE #534: AS-IS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Harry Styles — “As It Was” John Cozz — “As Long As I’m With You”The Rubinoos — “As Long As I’m With You”Bern & the Brights — ”As Long As I’m Alive” 2nd Grade — “As Long As We Can Talk About It” Amy Rigby — “As […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/11/23
EPISODE #533: ANTONYMS The Smile — “The Opposite” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Yardbirds — “Over Under Sideways Down” Kitty Wells — “Left to Right”The dB’s — “Black and White”Allegra Krieger — ”The Push and the Pull” Bruce Springsteen — “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)” The Smithereens — “Blues Before and After”Frank Sinatra — “Night […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/4/23
EPISODE #532: IN SHAPE The Yardbirds — “Shapes of Things” [ALTERNATE THEME]Idlewild — “When I Argue I See Shapes” Johnny Restivo — “The Shape I’m In”The Band — “The Shape I’m In”Beach Boys — ”I’m in Great Shape” They Might Be Giants — “Spiraling Shape” The Pipettes — “Pull Shapes”Jackson Browne — “In the Shape […]
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