July 2024
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Movie Review: Twisters
3.5 stars out of 5 Hmm, 3.5, what’s that on the Fujita scale? Seeing this movie was sort of a perfect storm for me: I dig weather porn, I have fond memories of Twister from back in 1996, plus I’m one of the countless throngs who fell in love with Daisy Edgar-Jones in Normal People. […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/30/24
EPISODE #601: 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS (GAMES II) John Williams — “Bugler’s Dream and Olympic Fanfare Medley” [ALTERNATE THEME]Rugby World Cup 2007 Stade de France crowd — “La Marseillaise”The Original Sins — “Sunshine Games” Curt Boettcher — “Keeper of the Games” [demo]Peter Gabriel — “Games Without Frontiers” Cadallaca — “Pocket Games”Rain Recordings — “Eye Games” John […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/23/24
EPISODE #600: MUSIC IV The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Bug Club — “Is This the Music You Like?”Larry Lurex (Freddie Mercury) — “I Can Hear Music” The Whatnauts — “Dance to the Music”Rebecca Turner — “What If Music?” Forclose — “Noise not Music”Sensational Country Blues Wonders — “I Can Hear the Music Play” The […]
Movie Review: Kinds of Kindness
4.5 stars out of 5 Welcome back, Yorgos! OK, director Yorgos Lanthimos hasn’t exactly been missing in action. His 2023 film Poor Things was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 4 of them. But he didn’t write that movie, or the one before, The Favourite. In fact, it’s been 7 years since Lanthimos and […]
Additional Goals of Project 2025
Hard-line conservatives, including many former Trump administration lackeys, have cobbled together a 900-page manic manifesto called Project 2025. That’s 144 pages longer than Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The organization behind the curtain of this dogmatic document is the “Heritage Foundation,” which is like the John Birch Society and the Klan, but […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/16/24
EPISODE #599: COOL III The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Charlie Gracie — “Cool Baby”The Pooh Sticks — “Cool in a Crisis” Heavenly — “Cool Guitar Boy”Sonny Boy Williamson II — “Cool, Cool Blues” Sonic Youth feat. Chuck D — “Kool Thing”Rolling Stones — “Cool, Calm, and Collected” The Cucumbers — “Keep Your Cool” They Might […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition XXVI
Wars, death, extreme weather, out-of-control Supreme Court, human rights violations, political campaigns, assassination attempts, etc. etc. — the real world has been getting just a little too real. Thank goodness for TV! Here are the shows I checked out in the past 6 months or so…. LOVED Fargo (FX) Best season of Fargo in a […]
Single Review: “Capture the Flag” by Roe Knows Best
4 stars out of 5Listen on Spotify hereListen/buy on Bandcamp hereKnow Roe? No? I didn’t really either till last August, when I saw Roe Knows Best perform solo in a sweltering New Jersey basement. (Previously, I’d only heard a couple of her songs on Pizza Bagel Records compilations.) Now, I attend a lot of shows […]
Movie Review: A Quiet Place — Day One
3.5 stars out of 5 If you saw A Quiet Place II, you’ll recall that movie began with a flashback to Day One of the alien invasion. But that was Day One in the suburbs. Quiet Place III is Day One in the gritty city. With a kitty. And Lupita Nyong’o. No Emily Blunt, no […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/9/24
EPISODE #598: HOUR GANG The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Billy Ward & the Dominoes — “Sixty-Minute Man”Sleater-Kinney — “One More Hour” Sparks — “Amateur Hour”The Bug Club — “In My Hour of Song” The Clientele — “An Hour Before the Light”The Plimsouls — “Zero Hour” The Sundays — “My Finest Hour” Wilson Pickett — “In […]
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