June 2024
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Aquarium Playlist, 6/25/24
EPISODE #596: CASEY KASEM TRIBUTE 2024 “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” [ALTERNATE THEME]Elvis Presley — “Suspicious Minds” [Billboard No. 1, 11/1/69]The 5th Dimension — “Wedding Bell Blues” [No. 1, 11/8/69 – 11/22/69]The Beatles — “Come Together/Something” [double A-side No. 1, 11/29/69]Steam — “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” [No. 1, 12/6/69 – 12/13/69]Diana Ross & […]
Movie Review: Tuesday
4 stars out of 5Tuesday is the day to go to the Clairidge Theater in Montclair, because that’s discount day. But we who are truly in the know (and who have a member discount anyway) will go on Wednesdays, when no one is around. (They all went on Tuesday.) Things didn’t work out for me […]
Movie Review: Flipside
3.5 stars out of 5The name Christopher Wilcha looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Ah, but years ago, someone tipped me off to his directorial debut, the 1999 first-person documentary The Target Shoots First, about working at the Columbia Record Club during the “alternative rock” era. (I watched it on Vimeo.) And in 2007, […]
Movie Review: Ezra
3 stars out of 5There’s been a lot of hubbub the past couple of months about Timothée Chalamet being in Hoboken to film the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. And yet there’s been zero hubbub about a current major motion picture that is actually set in Hoboken. And that motion picture is called […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/18/24
EPISODE #595: SUMMER 2024 The Flashing Lights — “Summertime Climb” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Proper Ornaments — “Waiting for the Summer”So Cow — “Summer Is Icumen in Again” Sweater Girls — “Summer Girls”Wolfmanhattan Project — “Summer Forever” The 5th Dimension — “On the Beach (in the Summertime)” The Pastels — “Summer Rain” The Smittens — “Summer Sunshine” […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/11/24
EPISODE #594: POP The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Prince — “Pop Life”Blueboy — “Popkiss” The Consultants — “Pop Pop”Noise Addict — “Pop Queen” The Chills — “Heavenly Pop Hit” Art Brut — “We Make Pop Music” France Gall — “Baby Pop” Heavy Lag — “Dirt Pop”Colin Clary — ”Boogiepop (Don’t Stop)” XTC — “This Is […]
Movie Review: Evil Does Not Exist
4 stars out of 5 In the past 2.5 years, I’ve quietly become a fan of writer/director Ryûke Hamaguchi. His previous effort, Drive My Car (based on a Haruki Murakami short story), was my favorite film of 2021. And his anthology film Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was pretty compelling as well. Now this would […]
Movie Review: Furiosa—A Mad Max Saga
4 stars out of 5 “Mad Max” was a nickname, which described his behavior, which was — you know — mad. But saddling a kid with the name Furiosa — are you sealing their fate right then and there? And don’t even get me started on her arch rival, Dementus. As with recent sequels involving […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/4/24
EPISODE #593: LULLABIES The Pogues — “Lullaby of London” [ALTERNATE THEME]Lightheaded — “Dawn Hush Lullaby”Thigh Master (now Dippers) — “Porto’s Lullaby” UV-TV — “Distant Lullaby”Jonny Couch — “Lullaby” Long Neck — “Lullaby” Health & Happiness Show — “Sinner’s Lullaby” Neko Case — “Furnace Room Lullaby” M. Ward — “Lullaby + Exile”Built to Spill — ”Nowhere […]
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