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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 […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/2/24
EPISODE #597: LONG SONGS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Art Blakey — “The Egyptian”Chambers Brothers — “Time Has Come Today” [LP version]Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks — “Real Emotional Trash”Emma Swift — “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” Turing Machine — “Swiss Grid” Jack Silbert proudly records the Aquarium podcast in Hoboken, NJ.
Movie Review: Robot Dreams
4 stars out of 5 This film should not be confused with the 1984 flick Electric Dreams starring Virginia Madsen and Maxwell Caulfield, nor with the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, basis for the 1982 movie Blade Runner. However, it does involve animals, robots, dreams, and the 1980s. Robot […]
Movie Review: Dory Previn — On My Way to Where
4.5 stars out of 5 I wasn’t familiar with Dory Previn. Even the 2006 song “Dory Previn” by one of my favorite groups, Camera Obscura, didn’t inspire me to look up Dory Previn, and the name slipped out of my head. I must’ve seen her name multiple times, yet it never stuck. Until February, that […]
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 & […]
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