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Aquarium Playlist, 10/13/26
EPISODE #705: BLOWIN’ UP The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Los Straitjackets — “Blowout!” Kiwi Jr. — “Blowin’ Up” Dinosaur Jr. — “Blowin’ Up” The Exciters — “Blowing Up My Mind” The Bongos — “Blow Up” George Harrison — “Blow Away”Jeff Lynne — “Blown Away”Matthew Sweet — “Blown Away” The 5th Dimension — “Blowing Away” The […]
Movie Review: The History of Concrete
4 stars out of 5HBO’s How To with John Wilson was a real pleasant pandemic surprise, debuting in October 2020. It presented an ostensible how-to project each week, but was actually — as I described at the time — “a showcase for Wilson’s unerring eye for the absurd via reams of his on-the-street video footage, […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/6/26
EPISODE #704: TRIP TO MAINE Vic Chesnutt — “Vernon” [ALTERNATE THEME]Gold-Bears — “Record Store” Sourpatch — “Deli Dream” Cub — “Motel 6” E.R. Jurken — “Maine Man” The Zombies — “A Rose for Emily” Minutemen — “Life as a Rehearsal”The B-52’s — “Rock Lobster”The Animals — “Gonna Send You Back to Walker” Lil Wayne — […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/29/26
EPISODE #703: TROUBLE II The Goodbye Party — “Trouble” [ALTERNATE THEME]Aesop Rock x Blockhead — “Trouble Trouble” James Mastro— “Trouble” Freedy Johnston — “The Trouble Tree” Antietam — “Trouble Net” Vehicle Flips — “Trouble on the Western Survey” The Resonars — “If You’ve Got Troubles”Minor Alps — “If I Wanted Trouble”Rufus Wainwright — “Trouble in […]
Movie Review: The Uprising
3 stars out of 5This was not a “ooh I can’t wait to see this movie” selection. Rather, it was a “I’m bored stiff in Maryland and I guess this looks OK” choice. Andrew Garfield, we like him. And writer/director Paul Greengrass made those Matt Damon/Jason Bourne flicks. This could be exciting, even if I […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/22/26
EPISODE #702: DIFFERENT Joan Jett & the Blackhearts — “Different” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Human Hearts — “A Different City for a Different Life” The Lookout Honeys — “Different Waters” Big Eyes — “Different Than I Thought” Heavenly — “Different Day” Lewsberg — “A Different View” Wipers — “Different Ways”Elvis Costello & the Attractions — “Different Finger”The […]
Movie Review: Coyote vs. Acme
4 stars out of 5This is a whole lot of fun! I haven’t seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit since it came out but this gave me the same “cartoon characters interacting with humans” satisfaction; instead of the creepy 3D Mickey animation you might see on a Disney Channel commercial at the Holiday Inn Express, it’s […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/15/26
EPISODE #701: MOUNTAINS Donovan — “There Is a Mountain” [ALTERNATE THEME]Paul McCartney — “Mountain Top” Laura Cantrell — “The Curse of Hook Mountain” Obrey Wilson — “Hey There Mountain” Jennifer O’Connor — “Mountains” Tuff Sunshine — “Move a Mountain” Joe Pernice — “Spend a Mountain”Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell — “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”Midlake […]
Movie Review: Buddy
4 stars out of 5In 2014, I was absolutely delighted by sitcom-opening-credit-spoofing viral video “Too Many Cooks.” I even built an internet radio episode around it. I don’t think anything since has captured my imagination even a fraction as much until Six Seven. So when I learned that Cooks director/co-writer Casper Kelly had a feature […]
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