June 2025
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Aquarium Playlist, 6/24/25
EPISODE #647: SUMMER 2025 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Helen Love — “Let’s Go Surfing”Chubby Checker — “Dancin’ Party” The Cowsills — “Most of All” Good Grief — “Kissing Through Curtains” First Class — “Beach Baby”Awful Din — “Summer” [unsolicited Silbert edit]Lawn — “Summertime” The Junior League w/ Scott the Hoople — “Summer of Flies” […]
Movie Review: The Phoenician Scheme
4.5 stars out of 5I was so thrilled while watching this movie that only now, with a distance of a few days, do I realize that I didn’t totally get the ending, that maybe I passed out for a couple of key scenes in the last 20 minutes. But everything else was so much fun, […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/17/25
EPISODE #646: BRIAN WILSON TRIBUTE The Four Freshman — “It’s a Blue World” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Ronettes — “Be My Baby”Beach Boys — “The Warmth of the Sun” Beach Boys — “I’m Waiting for the Day” Beach Boys — “Our Prayer” Beach Boys — “Wonderful”Beach Boys — “Heroes and Villains” Jan & Dean — “Surf City” […]
Thank You, Brian Wilson
We weren’t a big record-buying family, but somehow we owned the Beach Boys’ 1974 double-album compilation Endless Summer. And by the bicentennial summer and carrying into my 2nd-grade fall, I was in love with those Boys from Hawthorne and all those wonderful songs. (The Beatles’ red and blue compilations had come out in 1973, but […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/10/25
EPISODE #645: LITTLE Elliott Smith — “Little One” [ALTERNATE THEME]Ezra Cohen — “Little Things”Nina Simone — “I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl” The Replacements — “My Little Problem” Heavenly — “So Little Deserve” Gary U.S. Bonds — “This Little Girl”Matthew Sweet — “Give a Little” Laura Cantrell — “Little Bit of You” Rolling […]
Movie Review: Mission Impossible—Final Reckoning
3.5 stars out of 5Well, it’s the final Mission: Impossible, I reckon — until they decide to reboot the series in two years with an extended cameo from Tom Cruise as Jim Phelps. Or it’s a prequel reboot streaming show focusing on Phelps’ early days, to air on Amazon Prime. Principal photography will likely begin […]
EP Review: ‘Weekend at Mauchie’s… Vol. 1’ by MAUCH & Roe Knows Best
4 stars out of 5 Buy on Bandcamp here Listen on Spotify here Ghosts, aliens, sharks! Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! On their rockin’ new collaborative EP, MAUCH (Max Rauch) and Roe Knows Best (Rosanna O’Brien) are ready to tackle whatever challenges come their way. Though the EP’s title, Weekend at Mauchie’s… Vol. […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/3/25
EPISODE #644: BIG The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Pixies — “Gigantic”Ed Seifert with Syd Straw and friends — “Great Big World” The Plimsouls — “Great Big World” Chris Isaak — “Big Wide Wonderful World” New York Dolls — “Give Her a Great Big Kiss” [demo]The Lemonheads — “The Great Big No” Derrell Felts — […]
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